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On Tue, 06 Oct 1998 18:06:53 GMT, msissom@dnaent.com <msissom@dnaent.com> wrote:
>On Tue, 06 Oct 1998 06:14:30 GMT, tmgreen@jollynet.de (Tim Green)
>wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 4 Oct 1998 09:53:37 GMT, phm@a2e.de (PILCH Hartmut) wrote:
>>
>>>What matters is that with open source, there is free competition among =
>>those
>>>that can provide the service of bugfixing.  Which means that the bug =
>>usually=20
>>>gets fixed at extremely low cost.
>>
>>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.
>
>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?

	...just about anything you can think of.
	This also rather applies to software as
	well. It's just that software vendors 
	have never been held to it and do every
	thing they can to AVOID being held to it.
	HELL, it's hard enough to get merchants of
	software to uphold the explicit warranties,
	nevermind the implied statutory ones.

>
>>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.
>
>As soon as the product fails, take it in for repair like any other
>failed product or return it and get your money back. Much simpler.
>That's what I've always done.

	Oh? Where do you shop exactly? 

>
>Besides, if my word processor were to fail, how could that oblidge
>M$ to release the code to their os?

	Yup. It's all one big house of cards. Although
	the statutory pressure is already there to some
	extent. Consumers just have to learn to exercise it.

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