Re: why is non-free software immoral?

[Zen Lunatic]

> if you think of immoral as negative, non-free software is immoral
> because a fettered mind is a gift from the slave to the slaveowner.

Well thats a good thing if you're looking from the slaveowners perspective.

> if you think of immoral as neutral (similar to "amoral"), non-free
> software is immoral because as a currency in motion it casts no
> shadow on the moral axis.

Can you explain this further? I am confused.

> if you think of immoral as positive, non-free software is immoral
> because slaveowners know better than to let slaves live unprotected.

I don't know what you mean.

> if you don't think of immoral as correlatable w/ non-free software
> in any sense, then you probably have stopped reading by now, which
> is just as well...

Part of me 'feels' non-free software is wrong but I would like to come
to a philosophical truth on the matter.