> Nadav, I expected better from you. Invalid arguments can have correct
> conclusions ;) Yes, it would be immoral to patent or hide the caviar-producing
> technology, but not because caviar tastes better, but because hiding
> technological knowledge is immoral.
I always find it hilarious how some people truly believe they have some
'moral right' to tell you what to do.
For the the record, every piece of software I ever wrote which I allowed
others to use freely was *mine* to give. I could not have given that
premission unless it was mine. Not because of copyright or other legal
nastiness, but simply because I thought about it and I could have
decided to not tell anyone about it and then it wouldn't have existed.
Note that I haven't said anything about any right I have for someone
else thinking or making the very same software or idea on his own - I
don't claim any right on that).
It is very true that whatever software I wrote (whether I gave
premission to use it freely or otherwise) was based on the work of
others which did gave their premission and that I could not have
possibly written that software without that premission. Therefore it is
my enlightened self interest to share my own work with others in much
the same fashion and not be greedy BUT it is a choice *I* make from my
own *free* will, and I marked free here for a reason to remind you this
is all about freedom.
When people talk about what they think is moral for me to do with my
belognings I send my hand to my gun... 'technological knowledge' or
otherwise.
Gilad.
--
Gilad Ben-Yossef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Code mangler, senior coffee drinker and VP SIGSEGV
Qlusters ltd.
"You got an EMP device in the server room? That is so cool."
-- from a hackers-il thread on paranoia
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