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 06 Oct 1998 11:53:32 +0200, 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.

Sorry, I didn't make it clear - I wasn't talking about GNU/Linux
systems but software *in general*. This would still leave the option
open for completely open systems like Linux. 

The suggestion was actually a little tounge-in-cheek anyway ;) I don't
really think there's much chance of forcing the software industry to
reveal their source code *per se*, but you might be able to make a
good case for forcing them to reveal code if it causes any serious
functional problems. This would be at least a first step towards
establishing the open approach that has so far functioned so well with
Linux.

Greets,
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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