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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 (...) (21 years ago, 16-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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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 (...) (21 years ago, 16-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) And I would like to publicly like to thank Don Heyse for LDGLite and Travis Cobbs for LDView. Special thanks go to Don Heyse since his application is basically the father of all Mac OS LDraw editors (except one that isn't being worked on and (...) (21 years ago, 17-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad)
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