Ethical Reasons
▻https://diasp.eu/p/6988517
Ethical Reasons
I wonder if this is the sort of thing Neil Postman was trying to get at in Technopoly, The Surrender of Culture to Technology . One of the Minamata Disease Victims and Activists, Teruo Kawamoto, said that the problem is that the development of philosophy(and ethics?) have not kept up with the development of science(or technology?)...
One of the most striking features of your approach to the issues of technology and software and so on is that you consider ethical and social matters more important than possible technological advantages. - ▻https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/rms-hack.html
The philosophy of open source, with its purely practical values, impedes understanding of the deeper ideas of free software; it brings many people into our community, but does not teach (...)