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ITT: post facto justifications for why an open source developer should be forced to materially contribute to actions they find morally abhorrent. Along with man
by rudiv 7y ago
ITT: post facto justifications for why an open source developer should be forced to materially contribute to actions they find morally abhorrent. Along with many meaningless digressions about the validity of the developer's moral code (ignoring the whole point of a moral code not needing outside justification).
- sdinsn 7y ago> ...for why an open source developer should... This person is not an open source developer, since they restricted the usage of their code. They have the right to restrict usage of course, but please don't taint the idea of open source software.
- aaomidi 7y agoOpen source software's definition isn't provided to us from the heavens. We've defined what it means. There's no reason to stick to that one definition we have - its convenient but please don't assume that the words we have won't change in meaning in the future. This is human progression, trial and error, and societal evolution happening before our eyes. You won't be able to stop this, it's a natural process that drives society. All you can do is influence this progression.