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

[david <david.willington@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 12:54 +0100, Adam Funk wrote:
> david wrote:


> > Free software means software that respects users essential freedoms,
> > including the freedom to change the software so it does what you
> > wish,
> > freedom to run it, and freedom to redistribute copies.
> >> 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?
> 
> Yes; yes.

Could you elucidate??? What exactly is unethical about proprietary
software? The freedoms listed above seem to me a good thing that lead to
dynamism in software and is empowering for everyone involved, but just
because the alternative seems to be daft and inefficient doesn't mean
they're unethical. There must be plenty of daft, inefficient practices
that aren't also unethical. Have I missed one of the points of open
source?

All the best

David


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