[Cialug] Mandriva - open letter to Steve Ballmer

[Morris Dovey]

Todd Walton wrote:
| On 11/2/07, Dave J. Hala Jr. <dave at 58ghz.net> wrote:
|| Ethics is a fairly subjective thing and my experience is that the
|| higher the stakes the less ethics is an issue.
|
| 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?
|
| Perhaps it's the idea that anything-goes in the realm of ethical
| conduct that causes these problems in the first place.  Ethics is
| *not* subjective.

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.

Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/