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

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From: Jonathan Buzzard
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 00:00

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In article <87u31iqan7.fsf@ivm.de>,
	Klaus Schilling <Klaus.Schilling@home.ivm.de> writes:
> tmgreen@jollynet.de (Tim Green) writes:
>
[SNIP] 
>> 
>> How about this approach:=20
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 2) As soon as the software proves to have bugs that impair its
>> usefulness the vendor *must* release all the source code for peer
>> review and correction "=E0 la Linux", including all the source code of
>> any dependencies -- in the case of M$ Word that would mean the Windows
>> source code, for example.
> 
> This is an evil, proprietaristic approach. It has no place on a GNU/Linux 
> system.
> The user must be free to modify the programs always and everywhere, be there
> a bug or not.
> 
> 		Klaus Schilling

Hum, I though he said that he used TeX/LaTeX some time back (might be wrong
though)?

Anway what about the evil nasty TeX then?


JAB.


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From: jab@hex.prestel.co.uk (Jonathan Buzzard)
Subject: Re: Society's access to source code (was Re: KDE v. Gnome)
Date: 1998/10/06
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