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Article #1020Re: Society's access to source code (was Re: KDE v. Gnome)
From: David Damerell
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 00:00
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Mark Evans <mark@grapefruit.ndirect.co.uk> wrote: >David Damerell <damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote: >><msissom@dnaent.com> wrote: >>>Nonsense, without even resorting to legalsleaze hair splitting, there >>>are faults in every product available on every market. You expect a >>>perfect product from one particular industry even though you happily >>>accept imperfection in every other product that you purchase. >>This is not even remotely true. If I buy screwdrivers, I expect them to be >>'of satisfactory quality' and 'fit for their purpose' [1]; they should be >N.B. A Warrantee and statutory rights are different issues. Er, yes; my point was that my statutory rights under UK law are not an unreasonable thing to expect, in contradiction of the original poster's suggestions. -- David/Kirsty Damerell. damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk CUWoCS President. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~damerell/ Hail Eris! |___| IV - A Discordian shall Partake of No Hot Dog Buns, for Such was the | | | Solace of Our Goddess when She was Confronted with The Original Snub.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1103af,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public From: damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk (David Damerell) Subject: Re: Society's access to source code (was Re: KDE v. Gnome) Date: 1998/10/14 Message-ID: <25C*mTrIn@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk> X-Deja-AN: 400926616 References: <FWc39EA3TLD2Ewp3@dlsl.demon.co.uk> <3623712e.519090112@news.onramp.net> <LmF*gsoIn@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk> <g4h107.3i.ln@grapefruit.ndirect.co.uk> Organization: Linux Unlimited Reply-To: damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss Originator: damerell@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk ([127.0.0.1])