From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Tue Apr 08 2003 - 02:03:52 MDT
Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
>>(Samantha Atkins <samantha@objectent.com>):
>>
>>It is extremely serious. It could easily spell the death of
>>Open Source software among other great evils.
>
>
> Even I wouldn't go quite that far...
>
> Open source software will never die so long as there are those
> of us willing to produce it.
>
If I can't run it on my box or at least not with half the
hardware out there as it is "trusted" compatible only or with
90% of the content because it is "protected" from "untrusted"
software, then O/S is in trouble. If I can't recompile a
module or two of my OS of choice because that will invalidate my
trusted licencse and put me in a world of hurt re content,
sites, apps that demand known trustworthiness, then effectively
the benefit of having the source is gone, software freedom is gone.
I don't think I exaggerated.
- samantha
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