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

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From: PILCH Hartmut
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 00:00

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tmgreen@jollynet.de (Tim Green) writes:

>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
...

I proposed something similar in http://www.lrz.de/~phm/konkrefen.html:
All software that needs to communicate with other systems (and is therefore
a part of public information infrastructure) can enter the public sphere
(e.g. be eligible for use in state organisations) only after certain 
openness certifications.  Source code may be deposited on a public server
and kept secret there for three years or until somebody proves that the
requirement of "open interface" aka emulatability is not met.

--
Hartmut Pilch
http://www.a2e.de/phm/

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From: phm@a2e.de (PILCH Hartmut)
Subject: Re: Society's access to source code (was Re: KDE v. Gnome)
Date: 1998/10/06
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