[Cialug] Mandriva - open letter to Steve Ballmer

[David Champion]

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.

To people with ethics, ethics are not subjective. To people without
them, they certainly are.

-dc