[Cialug] Mandriva - open letter to Steve Ballmer

Nathan Stien nathanism at gmail.com
Fri Nov 2 10:30:19 CDT 2007


On Nov 2, 2007 11:20 AM, Morris Dovey <mrdovey at iedu.com> wrote:
> Todd Walton wrote:
> | I must seriously take exception to this.  Ethics is *not*
> | subjective. And you contradict yourself when you say it's
> | subjective, but then say that some people dispense with it.  How do
> | you know they don't have an ethics that just doesn't match yours?
>
> Right - but a particular ethic is specific to a specific culture.
>
> Beware ethnocentrism! The ethic developed within one culture may bear
> scant resemblance to the ethic developed within another.

Alls I know is, in *my* culture, it's ethically wrong to use pipes as
a quoting character.  ;-)

- Nathan


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