Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

That may all be true, but its not as if you (or any company) has some 
God-given right to source code (or anything else one might define as an 
"Economic Good"). When a company acquires a software product, they are 
usually aware of the terms and conditions. If you don't like those 
conditions, buy a different software product. Or build one yourself.

I'm not out to chastize anyone here, but sometimes we seem to develop an 
attitude that because one product is available in "Open Source" and free 
of any charges to acquire & use it, that this means *all* products 
should be that way. If *all* software should be that way, then the 
person who doesn't have what they want should be required to build it 
and give it away. But that would cost money? How should the company who 
sells the non-Open-Source software product come up with the money?

MDC



Hyman Rosen wrote:
> 
> My company is in the middle of trying to purchase the source code
> for an application we use heavily. The application uses a GUI library
> from a vendor who is no longer in business, and the company which owns
> the application doesn't have the source for the GUI library. We are
> trying to find out who does own the library - we think it's some
> compnay in Brazil, but we haven't been able to contact them yet.
> 
> Not having the source for this application has cost us man years of
> wasted effort, and now it looks like the "traditional economic model
> for software" may doom our attempts to get the source altogether.


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