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Re: Why aren't LDRAW tools Open Source?
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lugnet.cad
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Fri, 16 Apr 2004 14:12:04 GMT
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As a programmer for some 28+ years I have extreme reservations about Open source
or as i call it “socialized” programming.
The entire concept of open source flies in the face of intellectual property
rights. That being who owns the rights to distrubute the software as they see
fit, to control how it works, to control what is done with it.
I have written in excess of a million lines of code over the years on everything
from giant mainframes to laptops, so i have a pretty good idea of how the world
works when it comes to programming. Every line of code i have written as part of
my employment belongs legally and completely to the company I was working for at
the time I wrote it or the client it was written for. The code that I have
written for personal use, and there is a lot of it, is mine to do as i see fit.
I own it. I have from time to time given programs to others for their use, but
under the agreement that it will always remain under my control.
I suppose one of the reservations i have with open source, expecially Linux is
that is almost a cult type of mentality. All pray at the alter of Linux or be
ground into the dust, flamed, spammed, hacked, abused.
Now I am not saying that all open source is bad, or that giving away programs
for use is bad. What I am saying is that the open source community believes that
they have the right to modify, re-write, used, abuse, and violate ownership
rights on every program, ever file type, every interface that they seem to like.
and anyone that stands in their way is evil, hence the way they treat Bill
Gates.
Let the flaming, hacking, and denial of service attacks begin.
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 | | Re: Why aren't LDRAW tools Open Source?
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| (...) I spent a bit of time working out how to reply to this mail without coming across as an open source zealot :) (...) I always thought open source relied on the concept of copyright (one of the 3 major concepts in intellectual property). It is (...) (20 years ago, 16-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Why aren't LDRAW tools Open Source?
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| The LDRAW tools (including MLCAD) are available for free download in binary form. But the source code is kept private. I'd like to offer a word of encouragement to the authors and maintainers of the code to consider opening the source code. This (...) (20 years ago, 14-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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