Re: Society's access to source code (was Re: KDE v. Gnome)

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From: Simon Kinahan
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 00:00

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msissom@dnaent.com wrote:
> >1) Anybody has the basic right to sell their software for money and
> >withold the code, provided that the software is fully functional and
> >entirely bug-free.
> 
> There will never be any 'commercial code'  released if it must
> satisfy so generic a qualification. No other product must satisfy
> this qualification, why should software?

It does doesn't it ? There is are 'IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY
AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE' to quote from the GPL. Software
licenses always contain this clause disavowing such warranties, even though
legally this is hogwash. To actual enforce these warranties on software
companies would put most of them out business, since all software (without
exception) in unfit for the intended purpose in one way or another. 

This is *precisely* the problem. With current model of software copyright
there is no way software companies could uphold such warranties.

Simon

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From: Simon Kinahan <simonk@cadence.com>
Subject: Re: Society's access to source code (was Re: KDE v. Gnome)
Date: 1998/10/13
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