Re: [Fsfe-uk] Re: Freedom to take freedom

[Dave Crossland]

On 22/01/2008, MJ Ray <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Related question: given that we refuse to support human rights in our
> software licences, how can we persuade our projects to support human
> rights in their purchasing decisions and so on?

By leading through publicised example - making more information about
how to make purchasing decisions with those things in mind available.

If you wrote a guide to buying vacuum cleaners in the UK from an
ethical-hacker perspective, I'd certainly be influenced by it.

There will always be nerds who refuse to get involved in any kind of
ethical discussions or skew them in bizarre ways because the kinds of
minds that are good at abstraction systematic thinking are less good
at abstract empathetic thinking. MBTI, Cohen, etc.

-- 
Regards,
Dave