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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a7365ff3531de5f4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-29 06:34:57 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!tar-meneldur.cbb-automation.DE!not-for-mail From: Dmitry A. Kazakov Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [OT] Right to use vs. sue (was: No call for Ada...) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 15:49:00 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: tar-meneldur.cbb-automation.de (212.79.194.119) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1083245695 15008206 I 212.79.194.119 ([77047]) X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7562 Date: 2004-04-29T15:49:00+02:00 List-Id: On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 12:08:24 +0100, "amado.alves" wrote: >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. They will become subcontractors. Nobody can earn money by soldering DVD players in the garage. Market consolidates this or other way. Once it happens, big players start to outsource. >/* 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. */ Exactly. >And why do you think the copyright system works poorly? Aren't zillions of creators living of them, some quite well? Only a small minority of them. Actually big recording, movie companies, publishing houses etc are robbing authors, forcing them to sell their rights. What is even worse, they decide what will be published. In fact it is a new kind of censorship, trying to form the market to get maximal profit. We have to tolerate this only because we do not know how to do it better. > Why can't this work for software? Because, now software development is maturing. Most of software written requires no creativity at all, but rather engineering. What is so interesting in MS-Word to deserve copyright protection? The idea of text processing, or rather just the shape of buttons? The later could be copyrighted, but not the software product as the whole. -- Regards, Dmitry Kazakov www.dmitry-kazakov.de