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Hello everybody,
I did not want to high-jack some of the previous related threads: - - Comment on "Nine Attitude Problems in Free and Open Source Software" - - firefox, iceweasel, burningdog, icecat, ...
Last day I was doing some philosophical discussions with the Socratic method [1], and found my self in situation where I was lost in my own arguments/thoughts ...
I had made a few standpoints:
free schoolbooks (gratis) vs open schoolbooks (free, gpl, cc) open standards vs de facto standards [2] apple vs gnu/linux gplv3 vs public domain vs software patents
Every standpoint seem to go down to the moral values of individual persons.
For example, why is it better that wealth (money) is spread out more evenly other then large corporations with lots of employees earn money and pays taxes, money does not disappear it stays in the world its an cycle...
What is wrong with paying lots of money for anti virus software, nice looking computers, buying all my software from one company. If it works for my and makes me feel save and secure and don't have bad experiences with it.
Is it egocentric to not support persons earning lots of money with there ideas, boughs patents, knowledge or other things.
Why should I share if I can take...
So how can one answer to those kind of thoughts, how to make persons see why they think like that, and that there are other ways to do things.
Thanks in advance for any thoughts.
Best regards,
Jelle de Jong
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_method [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_facto_standard