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How do these four freedoms constitute a border between "morally wrong" and "morally neutral or good" software? That seems dubious to me.
by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
How do these four freedoms constitute a border between "morally wrong" and "morally neutral or good" software? That seems dubious to me.
- daveloyall 10y agoI think the general idea is that software will certainly be in the history books, but it is so flexible that we don't know yet if it will be described as plague or panacea. I recommend reading or re-reading https://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html https://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html (...remember the part about asteroid mining? It's near this part: "In the long run, making programs free is a step toward the postscarcity world [...]") And there are in fact a lot of documents on this topic available here: https://www.gnu.org/server/sitemap.html#directory-philosophy https://www.gnu.org/server/sitemap.html#directory-philosophy
- Retra 10y agoThere're already laws about publicly funded research that basically are the same sort of thing.