Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 09, 2004 02:43 AM
But don't you see that this is exactly the kind of false distinction that is causing so many problems in many developed nations, North American, European and elsewhere (to combat that kneeejerk anti-Americanism being displayed elsewhere)?
You are saying that ethical, political, social-type considerations should only be the worry of government, and on the other hand that the market out to control the way the software industry developers. Free market capitalism is fundamentally incompatable with your depoliticised corporate environment, as cases like Enron and ExxonMobil show.
Too many people say that at the moment, most people take no notice of the social, political and spiritual considerations when consuming, and so Free Software's vision is flawed because it doesn't cater to this vision of people as consumers, leaving it all to Government. At the same time they complain about government legislation like the DMCA and EUCD.
You must understand that central to Free Software is the idea that software ought to be, nay needs to be rehumanised. Your software decisions *do* have political, social and even spiritual considerations, and you ought to recognise that. The same goes for all consumer choices you make. If we don't, we stand a very good chance of letting a handful of corporations run roughshod over our rights, and of letting society disintegrate into a morass of disconnected, disenfranchised consumers.
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Re:Real products v. Philosophical byproducts
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 09, 2004 02:43 AMYou are saying that ethical, political, social-type considerations should only be the worry of government, and on the other hand that the market out to control the way the software industry developers. Free market capitalism is fundamentally incompatable with your depoliticised corporate environment, as cases like Enron and ExxonMobil show.
Too many people say that at the moment, most people take no notice of the social, political and spiritual considerations when consuming, and so Free Software's vision is flawed because it doesn't cater to this vision of people as consumers, leaving it all to Government. At the same time they complain about government legislation like the DMCA and EUCD.
You must understand that central to Free Software is the idea that software ought to be, nay needs to be rehumanised. Your software decisions *do* have political, social and even spiritual considerations, and you ought to recognise that. The same goes for all consumer choices you make. If we don't, we stand a very good chance of letting a handful of corporations run roughshod over our rights, and of letting society disintegrate into a morass of disconnected, disenfranchised consumers.
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