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

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From: Klaus Schilling
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 00:00

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tmgreen@jollynet.de (Tim Green) writes:

> 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.
> 
> 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

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From: Klaus Schilling <Klaus.Schilling@home.ivm.de>
Subject: Re: Society's access to source code (was Re: KDE v. Gnome)
Date: 1998/10/06
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