Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Ubuntu !free

[Simon Ward]

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 10:45:14AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
> > I see no compelling ethical or societal reasons why a company should be
> > obligated to share the source code for it's in-house software systems.
> [...]
> 
> Not obligated (I feel that's a straw man I never introduced - I've
> written in the past about the absurdity of trying to force
> cooperation), but it is better if they are shared, isn't it?

I’d wager a good proportion of free software was written to satisfy
personal niggles and could have been kep private had the authors not
been inclined to share.

Simon
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