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Software isn't sentient...

Software isn't sentient...

Posted Jun 4, 2008 10:10 UTC (Wed) by slef (subscriber, #14720)
In reply to: Software isn't sentient... by orospakr
Parent article: Open Source Software Shows Its Muscle (Law.com)

> they refer to software itself having freedom, not people.

Don't anthropomorphise software.  It hates that.

+1 to the comments above about this being a warped FUDsicle.  I've worked with legal
librarians and don't remember hearing of Law.com before - I hope I never hear of it or the
author's Wolf Greenfield company again.


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