Re:Why developers should start choosing conscience over profit
by canibanoglu on Monday February 18, 2013 @07:20PM
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This is basically why I'm partial to open source. Free software with control over who has access to the source is a much better solution.
Re:Why developers should start choosing conscience over profit
by chimi on Monday February 18, 2013 @07:38PM
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If anyone but you has the source, you no longer control access to it. You and they do and if they decide to upload it to BitTorrent, what are you going to do?
Re:Why developers should start choosing conscience over profit
by canibanoglu on Monday February 18, 2013 @07:51PM
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That would be a good test to see if you made the right decision with giving a specific person access.
Re:Why developers should start choosing conscience over profit
by eevilspock on Monday February 18, 2013 @07:49PM
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That's a very cynical view.
I, for example, support the ACLU's defending the KKK's right to free speech. In the long run... or as MLK might say, the arch of free speech is long but it bends toward good. The same I believe for open source.
If I open my source code, anyone in the world can use it to do whatever they want, evil or otherwise. With closed source, I can choose who my customers are -- at least I have more control over it. Of course if people are skilled, bad, and determined enough, nothing will keep them out.
I can and do, also choose to let people use my software for free when I want to. With Open Source, I don't have that power.