moral values, ethics and standards

[Jelle de Jong]

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Hello everybody,

I did not want to high-jack some of the previous related threads:
- - Comment on "Nine Attitude Problems in Free and Open Source Software"
- - firefox, iceweasel, burningdog, icecat, ...

Last day I was doing some philosophical discussions with the Socratic
method [1], and found my self in situation where I was lost in my own
arguments/thoughts ...

I had made a few standpoints:

free schoolbooks (gratis) vs open schoolbooks (free, gpl, cc)
open standards vs de facto standards [2]
apple vs gnu/linux
gplv3 vs public domain vs software patents

Every standpoint seem to go down to the moral values of individual persons.

For example, why is it better that wealth (money) is spread out more
evenly other then large corporations with lots of employees earn money
and pays taxes, money does not disappear it stays in the world its an
cycle...

What is wrong with paying lots of money for anti virus software, nice
looking computers, buying all my software from one company. If it works
for my and makes me feel save and secure and don't have bad experiences
with it.

Is it egocentric to not support persons earning lots of money with there
ideas, boughs patents, knowledge or other things.

Why should I share if I can take...

So how can one answer to those kind of thoughts, how to make persons see
why they think like that, and that there are other ways to do things.

Thanks in advance for any thoughts.

Best regards,

Jelle de Jong

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_method
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_facto_standard

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