Posts filed under “Philosophy”
Free as in speech, not as in beer
For some members of the open source movement, open source is the moral compass of the software industry. Richard Stallman would strongly disagree if you said “open source is about giving away software for free.” Rather, open source is about freedom–giving everyone the freedom to see how software works and use it without restrictions. [...]
How should we participate in government?
Because of the nature of a blog, I will no longer attempt to focus on delivering organized thoughts, but rather I’ll just throw stuff out and leave the audience to piece it together. At our recent university elections, we had slightly more than 50% turnout. That’s not a new pattern and it’s not surprising. In [...]
The evil Walmart empire – a thought expierment
I had a fun conversation with my friend Barb over spring break concerning the labor abuses that Walmart is guilty of. It’s hard to dispute that Walmart has been caught in some abusive labor practices. Refusing to give employees more than 38 hours of work per week (to avoid paying full-time benefits), paying female employees [...]
Academic plagiarism?
I’ve been noticing a phenomenom more and more in recent months. I shouldn’t go so far as to call it plagiarism, but it is something in a questionably shady realm of ethics. The phenomenom I’ve been noticing is academic plagiarism. When I say this, I’m not talking about the kind where you copy your friends [...]