RE: Spinoff: Using Linux for work? was RE: Why Tech-Writers Should Know About Open Source Technologies

Subject: RE: Spinoff: Using Linux for work? was RE: Why Tech-Writers Should Know About Open Source Technologies
From: Brian Gordon <elasticsoul2003 -at- yahoo -dot- ca>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 16:39:25 -0400 (EDT)



--- Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axion -dot- net> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 16:24 -0400, Dan Goldstein
> wrote:
> > Owning your own code is the ethical equivalent of
> running a sweatshop?
>
> I'm sure you're joking, but, for some people, yes.
>
> The reasoning is that monopolies restrict access to
> computer resources.
> Since access to computer resources is necessary for
> a member of an
> industrialized society, restricting that access is
> unethical.

Could not the same argument be applied to many
'necessities?' Like, for example, food, shelter,
brand-name clothes (you're unlikely to get a TW job
unless appropriately dressed, after all)? Just because
something is a need does not oblige others to provide
it. (Not restricting access is the same as giving it
away.)

Brian

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