Resisting the binary blob

Resisting the binary blob

Posted Nov 22, 2006 14:30 UTC (Wed) by lysse (guest, #3190)
In reply to: Resisting the binary blob by emkey
Parent article: Resisting the binary blob

Oops - should have said this before posting my other comment.

> What in particular makes free software more ethical than for pay software? And can those rule be applied generally, or are they specific to software only?

Free software is not "more ethical than for-pay software", and I didn't say it was. I said its ethical basis - ie. the moral decision which led to the creation of free software as a concept - was its differentiator; I didn't imply anything about whether that moral decision was better or worse than others.

I guess, from this, the real problem you have with free software is that *it makes you feel judged*. Except it doesn't - YOU make you feel judged; free software only sets and seeks to protect its own standards, it doesn't seek to bring the rest of the world into compliance with it. That certainly accords with one generally accepted definition of freedom.

> Is free software actually free?

Now that question has to be a piece of FUD right up there with some of Ballmer's finest... Careful; your agenda is showing.

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