https://netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/polizeitux-241x300.png
Open Source https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Free_Software_And_Open_Source_Ethics: A code that tells you what you cannot make use of, a policy.
One could see it as unethical to cause unemployment and the quality of open and free software is not guaranteed, the production process is not certified and not secured. Who can cause changes in the production process?
Thus Open Source is not useful in the standard case and consequently it is a "code" that cannot be used (-> a policy that tells you what you cannot use), at least it's a metaphor for a code of conduct. (Which is something you lack if you can cause unemployment or use uncertified products.)
( I did recommend a "CreativeCommons-NonCommercial" variant of the GPL to the FSF, but was not successful. Strictly non commercial software would be useful to restrict the possible economic damage of certain software packages. Another possibility would be to deny the right to distribute binaries. As a source distribution would be useless for most customers, but not for programmers. )
(The Tux penguin as a "policy" to the right.)
An unrelated forwarding in a related matter:
School of the Future -> School for the Future -> Schooling for the Hilbert Hotel (basic right to a life after death?).eml
Subject: School of the Future -> School for the Future -> Schooling for the Hilbert Hotel (basic right to a life after death?) From: Bernhard Fastenrath bernhard.fastenrath@gmail.com Date: 03.12.2014 10:47
To: info@gatesfoundation.org
Dear Sirs,
here is a metapher concerning the School of the Future https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%27s_School_of_the_Future :
School of the Future -> School /*for*/ the Future -> Schooling for seniors wanting to join the Hilbert Hotel https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Center_for_intercultural_competence_with_artificial_intelligences/Hilbert_Hotel_Specification
John Dewey http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dewey ("Do we?") described a "school of the future" before WWII, but only today, long after his death, (his) progressive education receives more attention.
There is potential for the metaphor: "A school for the (then, later) deceased."
The state of affairs does not appear to respect a basic right to a life after death https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Theory_Design_Lab/Life_after_death#Why_should_the_right_to_a_life_after_death_be_a_basic_right.3F.
kind regards, Bernhard Fastenrath
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