[Pan-users] Re: Questions about the next release

[Duncan]

Steve Davies posted on Sat, 13 Nov 2010 09:40:07 +0000 as excerpted:

> I particularly like the Servantware references...

FWIW, I've been thinking, on and off, that I need to figure out some 
reasonable way to explain that such references are a reflection of my own 
ethics and value system and that I believe just as strongly that 
attempting to force them on other users (the servantware masters deserve 
what they'd get, after all, they're disrespecting my rights at least as 
much as they expect me not to disrespect their rights to assert control 
over stuff they wrote... obviously something they don't have to 
particularly worry about, since I'd be unlikely to run it anyway given the 
practical issues of trying to run blackbox software I don't trust the 
ethics of the creators of) not ready to voluntarily choose them would as 
equally strongly betray those same values.

It's gotta be a personal choice.

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