Re: [libreplanet-discuss] [fsf-community-team] Golden Rule Angle for Libre Software Advocacy

[MBR]

This is the kind of argument we need to be making.  It's something average people can relate to because it's real today.  Worrying about the plight of robots in some hypothetical future is not going to interest anyone other than the most avid Trekkies, and although there may be a lot of people like that among the programmer population, their numbers are negligible in the population at large.

Mark Rosenthal

On 8/13/16 2:24 PM, Marcos Marado wrote:

I won't go as far as to talk about robotic bodies, but the issue is pertinent today, with current technology.

I recently read about a woman who has a pacemaker. It had a software bug, which frightened her. She knows /of/ it but she doesn't know it, since she doesn't have access to the software running on her own body. Furthermore, she found out that there is a functionality in it to accept OTA updates, which she cannot control. Scary. And this is not science fiction, this is a real case, current technology.

Unfortunately I don't recall where I read about this, but it was in the last couple of weeks. On FSFE's newsletter, maybe?

Anyway, the question can be rephrased to "how ethical it is to implant non-free software on someone's body?".

Best regards,
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Marcos Marado
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On Aug 12, 2016 16:42, "Logan Streondj" <streondj@gmail.com> wrote:

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Hi,

I recently gave a presentation[1] on my libreware project, and someone
said they really liked the Golden Rule angle of reincarnating as a robot
.

The typical example I've often read advocating for libreware is the
car analogy, where you have access to your cars internals. This was a
great analogy when cars didn't have loads of proprietary software
installed -- unfortunately it is only increasing because of
self-driving cars.

However now as we get closer to the twenty twenties, when the
processing of a human brain should be affordable for a $1000.
The analogy I use now is:

"When you reincarnate as a robot, do you want to be enslaved by
proprietary software and hardware, or be liberated by libre software
and hardware?"

Anyways wondering what you guys think of this angle,
and if you might use it also.
I have more detailed slides in my presentation[1].


[1] my presentation SPEL and GI-OS overview (CC-BY-SA): PDF
 http://wyn.bot.nu/spel/src/virtual-machine/manual/presentation.pdf
 source TEX:
wyn.bot.nu/spel/src/virtual-machine/manual/presentation.tex

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