On: Gates Foundation research can’t be published in to...

[brianwawok]

Ethical question: if using closed source and harmful closed standards and extend, embrace, extinguish eventually leads to more open health care research and millions of lives saved, was it a net win or loss for the world?

[davidgerard → brianwawok]

Speaking as an unreconstructed Stallmanite, I do sometimes wonder if Microsoft will actually turn out to have been worth it.

[SkyMarshal → davidgerard]

Ditto. One of the greatest cognitive dissonances of our field.

[fortytw2 → brianwawok]

Does the end justify the means?

[Senji → fortytw2]

I'd say yes. But it depends on the ends.

[brianwawok → Senji]

And the means

[adrienne → brianwawok]

"There are no ends. There are only means." -U.K. Le Guin