DOS ain't dead

Lawyers (Users)

posted by lucho, 21.05.2008, 20:34

> Much of Open Source originated in the early unix world

Things were much simpler in the good old times, not so much formalised and legalised.

> The open source was more like being available to users and them to modify
> and recompile them for own use. Rights for redistribution were a separate
> idealized goal, but that was added only later after GNU.

So what was once open source may no longer be, and what source is open and what not is now decided by a committee of lawyers, specialists in the so-called "intellectual property".

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers" - Dick the Butcher, Henry VI, William Shakespeare (http://www.spectacle.org/797/finkel.html)

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• Do you know MultiDOS? - mr, 16.05.2008, 15:10 (Users)
  • Do you know MultiDOS? - Steve, 18.05.2008, 09:17
    • EDR-DOS - lucho, 19.05.2008, 08:45
      • EDR-DOS - rr, 19.05.2008, 09:45
        • EDR-DOS - lucho, 19.05.2008, 10:29
          • EDR-DOS - rr, 19.05.2008, 11:25
            • EDR-DOS - lucho, 19.05.2008, 14:43
      • EDR-DOS - Steve, 19.05.2008, 15:07
        • EDR-DOS - lucho, 19.05.2008, 17:36
          • EDR-DOS - Steve, 19.05.2008, 18:14
            • EDR-DOS - lucho, 19.05.2008, 18:45
              • EDR-DOS - Steve, 19.05.2008, 21:06
                • EDR-DOS - Rugxulo, 19.05.2008, 23:15
                  • DR-DOS - lucho, 20.05.2008, 13:11
                  • EDR-DOS - Steve, 20.05.2008, 17:30
                    • DR-DOS 8 - lucho, 20.05.2008, 17:54
                    • EDR-DOS - Rugxulo, 20.05.2008, 21:49
                      • DR-DOS vs. MS-DOS source code - lucho, 21.05.2008, 20:18
                        • DR-DOS vs. MS-DOS source code - rr, 21.05.2008, 22:10
                          • Micro$0ft - lucho, 22.05.2008, 15:40
                • EDR-DOS - lucho, 20.05.2008, 08:24
                  • EDR-DOS - rr, 20.05.2008, 09:47
                    • EDR-DOS - lucho, 20.05.2008, 10:08
                      • EDR-DOS - rr, 20.05.2008, 10:17
                        • WINDOWS and GATES - lucho, 20.05.2008, 10:52
                    • EDR-DOS - marcov, 21.05.2008, 14:39
                      • Lawyers - lucho, 21.05.2008, 20:34
                      • EDR-DOS - Khusraw, 21.05.2008, 21:36
                        • EDR-DOS - rr, 21.05.2008, 22:13
                          • EDR-DOS - Khusraw, 21.05.2008, 22:49
                            • EDR-DOS - rr, 21.05.2008, 23:35
                              • EDR-DOS - Khusraw, 21.05.2008, 23:44
                                • EDR-DOS - rr, 22.05.2008, 07:48
                                  • EDR-DOS - Khusraw, 22.05.2008, 09:29
                                    • EDR-DOS - rr, 22.05.2008, 10:06
                              • EDR-DOS - Khusraw, 21.05.2008, 23:58
                                • Lawyers and DOS - lucho, 22.05.2008, 16:19
                • Open source vs. free software - lucho, 22.05.2008, 16:03
    • Do you know MultiDOS? - Japheth, 19.05.2008, 10:00
      • OpenDOS licence - lucho, 19.05.2008, 10:38
        • OpenDOS licence - rr, 19.05.2008, 11:27
          • OpenDOS licence - lucho, 19.05.2008, 14:53
            • OpenDOS licence - rr, 19.05.2008, 15:25