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Ethical issueEthical issuePosted May 5, 2009 19:18 UTC (Tue) by BrucePerens (subscriber, #2510)In reply to: Ethical issue by jwb Parent article: Mozilla ponders policy change after Firefox extension battle (ars technica)
The creator of an HTTP response :-) This is a sort of narrow-mindedness that engineers are particularly susceptible to. The thought goes this way: The HTTP protocol standard doesn't say that there are any particular expectations of legal and ethical conduct over an HTTP connection, therefore there aren't. Ignoring centuries of legal and ethical structure which are the context in which your particular HTTP connection is functioning. The worst version of this is the thought that you, and your colleauges, have created a "cyberspace" in which the laws of the physical world do not apply. "Governments aren't invited", the cyberspace denizens shout! There is no cyberspace. You are functioning in a world that imposes a lot more rules than are enunciated in the HTTP standard.
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Ethical issue Posted May 7, 2009 4:05 UTC (Thu) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]
I think the fact that no one agrees with you pretty clearly spells out that the social contract you believe is not actually existent within society.
Ethical issue Posted May 7, 2009 16:17 UTC (Thu) by BrucePerens (subscriber, #2510) [Link] No, it just means there are a lot of freeloaders.
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