Hi!
13-Фев-2004 01:28 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to
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MD> Logically this fails as a false analogy. The putative idea of PD or open
MD> source is to maximize help to all who could use it.
The idea behind free soft (and even open source) is a social/public
benefit: with free sources you shouldn't reinvent the wheel each time, when
author of original program losts intersts in it and kills it.
MD> The released source
MD> code is not a dangerous item to use nor one to be treated with great care
MD> and concern for others' safety.
_Unreleased_ source _is_ dangerous, because it requres extra resources
from society to reproduce same functionality (because competition or because
original source is killed).
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