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There is the "moral" side of the question and the "ethical" side of the question. Morals are rules YOU live by... so, if you feel you should make a known damag
by daly 5y ago
There is the "moral" side of the question and the "ethical" side of the question.
Morals are rules YOU live by... so, if you feel you should make a known damaging change to your FOSS project and that fits your "morals"... then, yes, (deliberately) break the code.
Ethics are rules EVERYBODY lives by... so, if you feel you want to make a known damaging change to your FOSS project... then, no, don't (deliberately) break the code.
If your Morals don't align with Ethics then you see this as an issue.
If your Morals align with Ethics then there is no issue.
- salawat 5y agoThat... while admittedly convenient, I dare say, is not quite how those words are used. Morals, (standards by which one judges wrong or right, and which are generally shared within a culture) are the subject of the study of the field we call "Ethics". Though in your defense, language is organically morphing, linguistics descriptive moreso than prescriptive, and it is not an uncommon way of seeing those two terms used.