Software release philosophy (was Re: open source crap was Re: Archiving Software)

[der Mouse]

>> Here again, I see "it's his right to do that" being used as if it
>> implied "it's not a bad thing for him to do that".  As I explained
>> in another message, I do not agree with that leap.
> But you *do* seem to concur with 'it's a bad thing for him to do that
> == it's *not* his right to do that'

Perhaps it seems that way to you, but it is an erroneous impression.

> -- or you would have let him.

Oh, I let him.  I'm in no position to prevent him, after all.

But you seem to think that just because I censured him for it, that I
think he doesn't have a right to do it (because you leapt from the one
to the other).  This too is wrong.  I fully agree that he was/is within
his rights to do as he did.  That doesn't mean that I think what he did
was good, or even was not deserving censure.

> So, as Roger said, why should you put a moral bent on a personal
> choice?  Because that's exactly what you're doing.

See my reply to Roger.  Most briefly, because I believe such choices
hold back the state of the art, and thus harm society as a whole - at
which point it becomes a moral issue.

To me.

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