<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 8:02 AM, Luke -Jr <<a href="mailto:luke@dashjr.org">luke@dashjr.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Thursday 13 March 2008, Leo Mauler wrote:<br>
> Note the lack of quotation marks around my own words<br>
> in the phrase "Luke-Jr ... regards 'ndiswrapper' as a<br>
> kind of apostasy" (the one above, obviously not this<br>
> one). "Apostasy" generally means "becoming immoral"<br>
> or "adopting immoral behaviors" (both of which aren't<br>
> that much different from the strict dictionary<br>
> definition, "leaving one's religion").<br>
<br>
</div>Well, it looks like in this case you are only to blame for taking past tense<br>
as present, though I am as much to blame for having voiced such in the past<br>
and not remembering to correct them afterward.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> I pretty much nailed your exact opinion of<br>
> "ndiswrapper", which you revealed during a KCLUG list<br>
> discussion from December 2005 to January 2006, "Linux<br>
> on older laptops"<br>
<br>
</div>To revise my opinion, because it is indeed merely an opinion, I will state for<br>
the record:<br>
- I have no authority to speak on morality myself (only cite such authority).<br>
- - Therefore, unless someone with authority judges proprietary software to be<br>
immoral, I cannot assert it is.<br>
- - - Therefore, ndiswrapper is not inherently immoral.<br>
- ndiswrapper in fact adds support for NDIS, apparently an open standard for<br>
network drivers, to Linux<br>
- Since most NDIS drivers are proprietary and thus GPL-incompatible, this NDIS<br>
layer can be used (abused?) to legally bypass the GPL.<br>
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We need to examine perhaps if using non-GPL code is either situationally ethical or unconditionally an ethics risk.<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Oren Beck<br><br>816.729.3645