From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,FREEMAIL_FROM, MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a7365ff3531de5f4,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-29 04:08:41 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!fr.ip.ndsoftware.net!proxad.net!freenix!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: "amado.alves" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: [OT] Right to use vs. sue (was: No call for Ada...) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 12:08:24 +0100 Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1083236921 41682 212.85.156.195 (29 Apr 2004 11:08:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 11:08:41 +0000 (UTC) To: Return-Path: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6487.1 content-class: urn:content-classes:message X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototypinglanguage) Thread-Index: AcQt1GJ8IlbcROTbTkSvfPqjFCAO5gAAvHOI X-OriginalArrivalTime: 29 Apr 2004 11:08:25.0020 (UTC) FILETIME=[4A8EA7C0:01C42DDA] X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p7 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7560 Date: 2004-04-29T12:08:24+01:00 I like Kazakov's idea of, basically, selling warranty instead of bits. However I see this problem: only BIG entities are capable of effectively = providing warranty. So the model (if pushed by law) would put small = developers out of business. /* However I note that when a big company warrants some system (e.g. a = airplane) that contains software, they are of necessity warranting the = contained software, parts of which might have been done by small companies. */ And why do you think the copyright system works poorly? Aren't zillions = of creators living of them, some quite well? Why can't this work for = software?