[Discuss] EOMA68 Libre Hardware Standard and Libre Software project, currently crowd-funding (deadline expires 26th aug 2016)

[Matt Maier]

Yes, but, that seems like a different issue to me. What you're describing
is just normal, run-of-the-mill lying.

Basically, the problem you're describing is that a company offers X with
features A, B, and C, while keeping feature D a secret because they know
that disclosing feature D would cause people not to buy X.

That problem is why food has nutrition labels on it.

That's not directly related to the libre/open paradigm. Whether or not a
company makes the recipe for their food public is different from whether or
not they lie about that food's effect on the body.

Choosing to lie to your customers is already a standard question in
business ethics because people have been grappling with it ever since
business was invented. Libre/open only appeared recently when "copyleft"
was coined.

On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 7:58 PM, lkcl . <luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 4:27 PM, Mario Gómez <mxgxw.alpha at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>  people really *really* don't like to be told that they're being spied
> on through social media (google Tim Cook "we did it to ourselves"),
> that their "Fairphone" or other smartphone contains a backdoor OTA
> arbitrary execution path and uses DRM to lock down the OS.  they're
> *happy* to remain ignorant and they'd rather "shoot the messenger"
> than wake up or have to make a choice on their comfortable way of
> life... because there *aren't* any real alternatives.
>
>  libre *does not* generate confusion: it's very clear: it's about
> choosing ethical business practices over completely immoral financial
> exploitation practices that are so long-established and entrenched
> that people *genuinely think it's normal*!  and yeah, that's really
> uncomfortable for some people to face up to, to the point where
> they'll attack without provocation.
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