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Won't somebody think of the children! If you think something is unethical, as rms does with proprietary software, why would that change if it puts people out o
by comice 15y ago
Won't somebody think of the children!
If you think something is unethical, as rms does with proprietary software, why would that change if it puts people out of work? He still thinks it's unethical.
He ties it up with a false dichotomy: either I develop proprietary software or my children starve. If children really did starve due to there being no proprietary software jobs, then the discussion is different, but it's not the case.
Surely there are job losses in the tobacco industry, but I don't think we should stop discouraging it as a society.
This is such an ignorant and lazy article, why has it got so many votes here? Sigh.