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Article #1386Re: Society's access to source code (was Re: KDE v. Gnome)
From: David Kastrup
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 00:00
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Barry Margolin <barmar@bbnplanet.com> writes: > In article <CGv2JQAhR7F2EwZs@dlsl.demon.co.uk>, > Jason Clifford <jason@dlsl.demon.co.uk> wrote: > >I am not claiming that availability of source could not be useful - I am > >stating that it is not necessary. > > You're right. It's no more necessary than the ability to take a car to a > service station rather than the dealer for repairs and detailing. > > How many people would buy a car if they had to sign a contract saying that > they would get all repairs done by the dealer? But only in the course of general replacements for the whole product line. And only if you pay extra for it. And, of course, you have no right to any repairs, regardless whether you are willing to pay or not. And in order to be allowed to report a problem with your car (so that putting your problem on the overall replacement schedule is possible at all), you have to shell out amounts of money that are a multiple of the original car price. -- David Kastrup Phone: +49-234-700-5570 Email: dak@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de Fax: +49-234-709-4209 Institut f�r Neuroinformatik, Universit�tsstr. 150, 44780 Bochum, Germany
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 1103af,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public X-Google-Thread: f4bda,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bda,public From: David Kastrup <dak@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Subject: Re: Society's access to source code (was Re: KDE v. Gnome) Date: 1998/10/06 Message-ID: <m24sth7jsb.fsf@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> X-Deja-AN: 398308055 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <qj78u6.mf.ln@wog.interlog.com> <m3af3knl8m.fsf@c26469-a.clnvl1.ct.home.com> <6up86o <CGv2JQAhR7F2EwZs@dlsl.demon.co.uk> <%IaS1.22$8A3.352004@burlma1-snr1.gtei.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: sun579.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de 907690261 18223 134.147.176.147 (6 Oct 1998 16:11:01 GMT) Organization: Institut fuer Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) NNTP-Posting-Date: 6 Oct 1998 16:11:01 GMT Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss