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Re: Design principles and ethics


From: olafBuddenhagen
Subject: Re: Design principles and ethics
Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 17:43:44 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403

Hi,

On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 05:05:46PM -0600, Christopher Nelson wrote:

> Yes, but perhaps I wish to refuse the allow the program to run in
> certain circumstances, and so I wish to write encode into the program
> the means for detecting these situations.  You have taken that ability
> from me.  You are constraining my actions, and removing my freedom.

Yes, we are taking your "freedom" to enslave others.

> If I wrote a program that I wished to keep for myself, I might encode
> into it a way to make sure that only I am running it.  If someone then
> steals my private program, what is essentially my property, they can
> benefit from it without my consent.  You are enabling theft without
> repercussion.

If you keep it to yourself, only you have access to it anyways. I don't
see a problem here.

-antrik-




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