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

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From: Mark Evans
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 00:00

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Larry Smith <lcs@zk3.dec.com> wrote:
> 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?

> Quite the contrary.  There is a legal document called "fitness
> for use" which clearly spells out that selling anything that
> can't do the intended job entitles the purchaser to a full
> refund.  Yet it is quite normal for software "break seal"
> agreements to eliminate this right.  Why should software not
> be subject to the same qualifaction as any other product?

The loophole is that you don't *sell* software at all, you sell
a licence to use the software.

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From: Mark Evans <mark@grapefruit.ndirect.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Society's access to source code (was Re: KDE v. Gnome)
Date: 1998/10/09
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