| ▲ | mplewis 2 hours ago |
| you people are always mixing up the legal thing to do with the right thing to do |
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| ▲ | satvikpendem an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| Who decides what the right thing to do is? Everyone has different opinions. |
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| ▲ | fangspire 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| But laws are just encodes morality. |
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| ▲ | marcus_holmes an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Absolutely not. It was illegal to harbour escaped slaves. Or hide Jews from the Gestapo. Laws have nothing to do with morality. Or justice. | | |
| ▲ | lukan 2 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Yes they do, but not with a philosophical concept of morality, but merely those of the ruling class/majority. |
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| ▲ | ultrarunner an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Funny how morality so often benefits incumbents and the powerful. | |
| ▲ | Dylan16807 an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Many of them are, but they're focused on big picture issues and preventing harm. Most of morality has no legal force. |
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| ▲ | rdbl27 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Surely "the right thing to do" includes some element of the authors' explicitly stated preferences about how they wish to be treated. In this case, they chose -- explicitly -- to NOT require any payment or contribution from anyone. Your feelings about what constitutes "the right thing to do" are apparently different from those of the authors. You believe you know better than they themselves do how they should be treated. |
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| ▲ | marcus_holmes an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | They clearly would like donations, but choose not to require any payments. Your line of reasoning seems to be along the lines of "anything not forbidden is compulsory" which is not a good place. Having the choice to donate but not being required to is good. And yes, I think that if OpenAI is choosing to include an entire copy of LibreOffice in their product, it is definitely the right thing to do to sling them a donation. Note that the moral thing to do is not always the required thing to do, or even the legal thing to do. | | |
| ▲ | satvikpendem an hour ago | parent [-] | | More like, don't expect anything if not forced. Most people only generally pay for things if there is no other option. It's about what's moral (even then debatable as everyone has different morals) versus what's realistic to expect. | | |
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| ▲ | mastazi an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. | |
| ▲ | Dylan16807 an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | > Surely "the right thing to do" includes some element of the authors' explicitly stated preferences about how they wish to be treated. It does! And they wish to get donations. There's a button right at the top on the site making that clear. > In this case, they chose -- explicitly -- to NOT require any payment or contribution from anyone. Yes, so what? It is true that they wished to not require payment. That is one of their wishes, but they have more than one wish. And if they required payment, that wouldn't be a donation anyway. |
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