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@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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