On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 22:53 +0100, Björn Lindström wrote: > Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 22:28 +0100, Björn Lindström wrote: > >> In so far as moral can be applied here, restricting people from > >> tinkering with the software they run is immoral, since it diminishes > >> their freedom. > > > > By this logic, locking my doors is immoral because it diminishes > > people's freedom to roam around my house. > > No. > > It is the of refusing others their freedom when it would have no cost > to you is what is immoral. > Depending on how much more advanced your application is than that of your competition, open sourcing an app could have huge costs. > (I'm not counting the hypothetical cost of lost sales of copyright > licenses, which as I pointed out are an arbitrary monopoly, not a > moral right.) > >
