Moral obligations [LWN.net]

Moral obligations

Posted Jul 23, 2003 22:39 UTC (Wed) by NerdlyMcGeek (guest, #8453)
In reply to: Moral obligations by ccchips
Parent article: Open Source Victoria files ACCC complaint against SCO regarding Linux

More to the point. Many references are made to the Canopy Group but who controls them? A somewhat dark organization called Angel Investors who as it turns out are not publicly traded and are owned outright by the Mormon Church! Know you enemy!

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Moral obligations

Posted Jul 24, 2003 13:34 UTC (Thu) by ccchips (subscriber, #3222) [Link]

So, then, the implication is that an organization controlled by a Christian church is trying to wreck a process where people share their ideas without malice, and without expecting anything in return?

Interesting.

Moral obligations

Posted Jul 24, 2003 14:22 UTC (Thu) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link]

No, the implication (which I don't necessarily agree with) is that a very powerful and wealthy organization is behind the SCO extortion. <offtopic>And, just as a side note, although the LDS Church may very much like to call themselves Christian, they are rather far outside of orthodoxy as far as their history and theology goes, so many people don't consider them actually Christian--it just looks like it on the surface. But don't trust my word...go look for yourself.</offtopic>

Moral obligations

Posted Jul 24, 2003 14:56 UTC (Thu) by ccchips (subscriber, #3222) [Link]

Er...sorry about that. I should have added the following to my earlier post:

> ; |

...I have a bad habit of not filling in the pieces I think other people will know how to fill in (probably because there is a lot of room for opinion.

I was also trying to avoid discussing religion too much. The tendency to ban "sex, politics, and religion" in polite conversation is somewhat unfortunate though, because there are an awful lot of glaring examples where so-called "good" people have done some very *bad* things in the name of God, or Jesus, or Allah, or whichever god they claim to worship.

Anyway, to wrap up: Now that I know about the connection, I don't feel very good. I hope IBM and Linus and friends are able to cope with this, because it won't be easy.