Have people seen this?
There has now been a case where green beliefs given same status as religion under the anti-discrimination laws.
"Mr Nicholson claimed bosses ignored his opinions on global warming, which he said were fundamental to the way he lived his life. The judge agreed, declaring that a belief in man-made climate change was capable of being a philosophical belief. The judge said: "If a person can establish that he holds a philosophical belief which is based on science as opposed, for example, to religion, then there is no reason to disqualify it from protection."
Surely open source philosophy would be treated the same if taken to court? It is a belief based on science, for which there are good ethical reasons for following and adopting too, much in the same way climate change is.
Taken to its conclusion, could we now argue that failing to address a philosophical stand point on open source software could be seen as discrimination?
What do others think?
Full article can be seen here: http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/science_technology/green+beliefs+g...
If you are content to have a belief in anthropogenic global warming or indeed the merits of open source licencing and an open approach to software developed placed on a par with a belief in the virgin birth or the resurrection, then I am sure you will find comfort in this decision. Unfortunately, it rather plays into the hands of your opponents, who regard you as a wholly irrational 'freetard' whose attitudes to the innate superiority of proprietary systems, as demonstrated by the substantive facts of the massively greater sales of Micrososft software, are based on nothing but faith and blind prejudice.