Interesting Snippets from 2012-06-12

• Evaluating the harm from closed source

  When asking the question “When is it wrong (or right) to use closed-source software?”, we should treat it the same way we treat every other ethical question. First, by being very clear about what harmful consequences we wish to avoid; second, by reasoning from the avoidance of harm to a rule that is minimal and restricts peoples’ choices as little as possible.

  In the remainder of this essay I will develop a theory of the harm from closed source, then consider what ethical rules that theory implies.

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