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Re: Design principles and ethics
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olafBuddenhagen |
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Re: Design principles and ethics |
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Tue, 2 May 2006 17:43:44 +0200 |
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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-
- Re: Design principles and ethics, (continued)
- Re: Design principles and ethics, Bas Wijnen, 2006/05/02
- Re: Design principles and ethics, Pierre THIERRY, 2006/05/02
- Re: Design principles and ethics, Tom Bachmann, 2006/05/02
- Re: Design principles and ethics, Bas Wijnen, 2006/05/02
- Re: Design principles and ethics, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2006/05/02
- Re: Design principles and ethics, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2006/05/01
RE: Design principles and ethics, Christopher Nelson, 2006/05/01
RE: Design principles and ethics, Christopher Nelson, 2006/05/01
RE: Design principles and ethics, Christopher Nelson, 2006/05/02
RE: Design principles and ethics, Christopher Nelson, 2006/05/02