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Evaluating the harm from closed source

Erik S. Raymond | Armed and Dangerous | June 6, 2012

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. Ethical rules about a problem area don’t arise in a vacuum. When trying to understand and improve them it is useful to start by examining widely shared intuitions about the problem. Let’s begin by examining common intuitions about this one...

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