religion?

[Oren Beck]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 8:02 AM, Luke -Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:

> On Thursday 13 March 2008, Leo Mauler wrote:
> > Note the lack of quotation marks around my own words
> > in the phrase "Luke-Jr ... regards 'ndiswrapper' as a
> > kind of apostasy" (the one above, obviously not this
> > one).  "Apostasy" generally means "becoming immoral"
> > or "adopting immoral behaviors" (both of which aren't
> > that much different from the strict dictionary
> > definition, "leaving one's religion").
>
> Well, it looks like in this case you are only to blame for taking past
> tense
> as present, though I am as much to blame for having voiced such in the
> past
> and not remembering to correct them afterward.
>
> > I pretty much nailed your exact opinion of
> > "ndiswrapper", which you revealed during a KCLUG list
> > discussion from December 2005 to January 2006, "Linux
> > on older laptops"
>
> To revise my opinion, because it is indeed merely an opinion, I will state
> for
> the record:
> - I have no authority to speak on morality myself (only cite such
> authority).
> - - Therefore, unless someone with authority judges proprietary software
> to be
>    immoral, I cannot assert it is.
> - - - Therefore, ndiswrapper is not inherently immoral.
> - ndiswrapper in fact adds support for NDIS, apparently an open standard
> for
>  network drivers, to Linux
> - Since most NDIS drivers are proprietary  and thus GPL-incompatible, this
> NDIS
>  layer can be used (abused?) to legally bypass the GPL.
> _______________________________________________
> Kclug mailing list
> Kclug at kclug.org
> http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug
>

Ok- so in concept could not one apply using WINE as equally tainting of GPL?
Since the vast majority of uses for WINE are to execute "proprietary" code.

We need to examine perhaps if using non-GPL code is either situationally
ethical or unconditionally an ethics risk.


-- 
Oren Beck

816.729.3645
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://kclug.org/pipermail/kclug/attachments/20080313/7bcde8f6/attachment.htm