>From: "Rich Morgan" <rmorgan@heavysystems.com>
>Reply-To: slug@nks.net
>To: slug@nks.net
>Subject: Re: [SLUG] Software and Morality (was Cheap'n good laptops for
> Linux)
>Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:06:26 -0500 (EST)
>
>I think you fall into a trap when you assign moral qualities to objects
>rather than activities. It might be more accurate then to say that
>*writing* proprietary software is immoral since you could be hurting other
>people with buggy code that they cannot fix or placing people in an
>unsecure computing environment they cannot make secure.
>
><snip>
Well said. Although, one might also argue that *using* proprietary software
is immoral since it fosters the mindset that proprietary software is
socially acceptable. It also sends the message to proprietary developers
that the my-code-for-your-freedom transaction is just.
Jonathon
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