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

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From: Larry Smith
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 00:00

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Leslie Mikesell wrote:

> In article <87u31iqan7.fsf@ivm.de>,
> Klaus Schilling  <Klaus.Schilling@home.ivm.de> wrote:
> >
> >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.
> 
> And there should be no welded joints on cars because the users should be
> free to re-arrange the parts whether it's an improvement or not...

Fallacy.  Software does not have to be welded together in
order to work in the first place.  More accurate would be
installing just one door on a car and refusing to even let
users cut their own in on the other side.

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From: Larry Smith <lcs@zk3.dec.com>
Subject: Re: Society's access to source code (was Re: KDE v. Gnome)
Date: 1998/10/06
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