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

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From: Tim Green
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 00:00

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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 
>gets fixed at extremely low cost.

How about this approach: 

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 "à 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.

Tim

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From: tmgreen@jollynet.de (Tim Green)
Subject: Re: Society's access to source code (was Re: KDE v. Gnome)
Date: 1998/10/06
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