[ale] Code Of Ethics OS

[James P. Kinney III]

I'm glad I'm not in your shoes!!  What he is asking for is just short of
a Geek Constitution.

I would recommend reading Biographies of Stallman and Torvalds as well
as everything they have written that is more philosophical than
technical. Other people to read up on the get a good feel for the broad
OSS ethics are from the head writers of Perl, Python, Apache, and the
Debian distribution. One you have distilled out the points that all of
these people agree on completely, that will be a solid base for an Open
Source Software Code of Ethics.

Don't take this lightly. It may turn into something bigger than you
think.

On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 12:02, Emil P. Man wrote:
> ALErs.
> 
> My department chair here at KSU would like the Linux Users Group along 
> with other student organizations to produce a code of ethics that 
> complies with the beliefs of our organization. I have googled this 
> topic, Code of Ethics in Open Source however, I was unsuccesful in 
> finding anything pertinent. Here is my predicament: Code of ethics for 
> other computer industry groups do not necesarrily fallow the views of 
> open source, or they need to be more specific in regards to open source 
> software and our beliefs as a community.
> 
> I might be forced here to grab things from here and there and just put 
> something together from scratch.
> 
> Do you guys have any resources that you have found helpful?
> Any Ideas?
> 
> 
> Emil P. Man
> 
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