[Arm-netbook] firefly 3399 all source software disclosed?

[John Luke Gibson]

If I may put in my two cents, I look at it from the perspective of two
cultures.
We aren't a country and don't have our own language, so it's a bit of
a strange analogy to take literally but I mean it literally.

I see this as the same with being Vegan, different culture, different ethics.
The most unethical thing is to try and destroy a culture first and foremost.
By being isolationist and not cooperating with people and
organizations that are part of a different culture and getting to a
point where we can not-only respect our differences but appreciate
them as well, one is ultimately setting out to BURDEN all life with
their ethics. Filibustering the room; stopping all progress for the
sake of one ideal.

I think thats part of what Luke means when saying: it's unethical.

On 5/31/17, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:
> ron: what you're about to attempt is called "coercion".  it's
> unethical.  the principles behind the libre concept are that ethics
> come first: very few people in the libre world actually truly
> understand that, because they think it's about the technology or about
> the "four freedoms" as specifically defined and laid out.
>
> people need to be free to make their own choices.  firefly (Acer) have
> made their choice - as they are entirely at liberty to do - to release
> the full source code of the SOFTWARE and NOT the hardware.
>
> if you attempt to coerce them into doing something that they have not
> themselves chosen to do, they will not react as you intend, i
> guarantee it.
>
> so please don't do it: it's unethical.
>
> l.
>
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