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Ethical question: if using closed source and harmful closed standards and extend, embrace, extinguish eventually leads to more open health care research and mil
by brianwawok 10y ago
Ethical question: if using closed source and harmful closed standards and extend, embrace, extinguish eventually leads to more open health care research and millions of lives saved, was it a net win or loss for the world?
- fortytw2 10y agoDoes the end justify the means?
- Senji 10y agoI'd say yes. But it depends on the ends.
- brianwawok 10y agoAnd the means
- adrienne 10y ago"There are no ends. There are only means." -U.K. Le Guin
- davidgerard 10y agoSpeaking as an unreconstructed Stallmanite, I do sometimes wonder if Microsoft will actually turn out to have been worth it.
- SkyMarshal 10y agoDitto. One of the greatest cognitive dissonances of our field.