20 Feb
2006
20 Feb
'06
6:08 p.m.
On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 22:53 +0100, Björn Lindström wrote:
Lee Revell <rlrevell(a)joe-job.com>om>:
Depending on how much more advanced your application is than that of
your competition, open sourcing an app could have huge costs.
On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 22:28 +0100, Björn
Lindström wrote:
No.
It is the of refusing others their freedom when it would have no cost
to you is what is immoral.
In so far as moral can be applied here,
restricting people from
tinkering with the software they run is immoral, since it diminishes
their freedom.
By this logic, locking my doors is immoral because it diminishes
people's freedom to roam around my house. (I'm not counting the hypothetical cost of lost
sales of copyright
licenses, which as I pointed out are an arbitrary monopoly, not a
moral right.)