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

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From: Mr S A Penny
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 00:00

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In article <87u31iqan7.fsf@ivm.de>,
	Klaus Schilling <Klaus.Schilling@home.ivm.de> writes:
>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.

get out of your arse, what's evil about being provided with perfectly working
software? if you write a program, you want to be able to get something back
and no-one's going to give to MS money for nowt...

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From: phuae@lupin.csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr S A Penny)
Subject: Re: Society's access to source code (was Re: KDE v. Gnome)
Date: 1998/10/06
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