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Re: [Sheflug] NVidia on SuSE and the SuSE/Novell/M$ thing



On Wednesday 28 March 2007 12:17 pm, david wrote:
> >  For me its a very simple case of being fair.
> >
> > This statement from stallman was recently convey by Bruce Perens and I
> > think sums this up nicely
> >
> > ---
> > The denial of
> > these freedoms is what makes proprietary software unethical.
>
> Is proprietary software really unethical, or does it just provide a very
> good mechanism to allow you to be unethical?
>
> David Willington
>
>

I would say its unethical to use someone else's hardwork without their 
permission. In this instance it looks like Novell are doing this via a slight 
of hand.

 Cheers

       Dave.


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