Hi Hank, I reseve the right to spread giving into all aspects of life. Of course giving gets into morals. It is obvious by the responces.
The question was who wants to help and the response was how dare you! I am done with this. As a wise man once said it is easier to ask for forgiveness than permission, so I will later ask for your forgiveness. Thanks On Friday 20 October 2006 8:10 pm, hank williams wrote: > I have to say, listening to this thread, that I think there is a whole > lot of talk that sounds, in essence like it is talking about the honor > of contributing to open source software or some movement. There is a > lot of talk that seems to border on ethics and what is right and > wrong, though this is not explicitly stated. > > I think that open source is great. If you have extra time to > contribute to something that's great. If you have extra money to > contribute, that's great too. But there should not be any perceived or > implied moral imperative to contribute. It almost sounds like people > feel like it is wrong to not contribute, or that there is something > wrong with needing or wanting to make money. > > As I see it, it is much more important, and proper to focus on > supporting your family, children, and those that are around you. There > is no moral imperative to contributing to open source. If you want to > create something and it makes you feel good to contribute your work > you should do it. But there should be no implication of right and > wrong. > > There are a lot more important issues to contribute money and time to > than open source software. In America, we have tens of thousands of > people that are homeless because of Katrina. In Africa, there are > millions of people on the edge of starvation. As a planet, we have > lots of issues that require ethical introspection. But invoking such > imagery around whether or not you contribute some open source > framework or money for a community portal just seems, to me, perhaps > not the right perspective. > > Again, I greatly appreciate the value of great open source > contributors. But as I see it, it is a calling, not any kind or moral > or ethical obligation. I reserve that kind of talk for things that > really are at a different level of importance. > > Regards, > Hank > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > osflash@osflash.org > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list osflash@osflash.org http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
