When a project has full-time maintainers that are community-sponsored is it unethical to compete if it means they could be out of a job? How do you quantify a projects value if it could have a negative effect on people’s lives? Utilitarianism? This isn’t targeted or a subtweet.
It seems impossible to quantify the value of a “better” competing project when you take human capital and lives into account. Is improved performance and the time saved justify it? I don’t think there’s a correct answer here. Thanks for sharing! I appreciate hearing your thoughts
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This is poking at a much broader issue in moral philosophy, are ethics determined by intent or effect? Deontological ethics vs. consequentialism. The problem with judging by consequence is you can never know the actual consequence of an action until afterwards. Hard problem
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