Comment Re:Linus/Wall on NAPSTER/Metallica (Score 1) 623
Humh...an interesting philosophical question..is open source a necessary condition for things like napster, or are they ethically untethered?
Bertrand Meyer, "The Ethics of Free Software" certainly would seem to support the view that napster is a logical outgrowth of the moral absolutism of open source. Indeed, the die-hard stallman and raymond seem somewhat ambivalent in the article.
Not Linus though...now that he is in the corporate world that IP seems might important. Wonder how long before we see "transmeta" hooks in Linux?
Bertrand Meyer, "The Ethics of Free Software" certainly would seem to support the view that napster is a logical outgrowth of the moral absolutism of open source. Indeed, the die-hard stallman and raymond seem somewhat ambivalent in the article.
Not Linus though...now that he is in the corporate world that IP seems might important. Wonder how long before we see "transmeta" hooks in Linux?
