Re: [ox-en] John Mark Walker: There Is No Open Source Community
- From: Michael Bouwens <michelsub2003 yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 23:21:47 -0800 (PST)
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Open source, as a non-private appropriation of individual and collective work, is to my mind, morally higher than private appropriation for selffish or profit motives,
that aside from the pragmatic differences, felt keenly by the victims of IP-protected medicines which they cannot affort because of high prices, as an example.
Michel
Karel Kulhavy <clock twibright.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 06:44:17PM [PHONE NUMBER REMOVED], Geert Lovink wrote:
'Open source is not a religion. It is not an ideology. It can be used
for
both good and bad. It does not inhabit the higher moral ground, nor is
it a
more ethical way to conduct business. It just is, and it will continue
to
grow and expand.'
Yes. Open source is a pragmatic methodology. Like extreme programming
or object oriented programming.
I believe that free software inhabits the higher moral ground, but not
open source.
CL<
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/01/12/no_oss_community.html?
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