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[ILUG] It's illegal, according to the barrister in PC World

[ILUG] It's illegal, according to the barrister in PC World

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Fri May 3 23:50:43 IST 2002


Quoting Smelly Pooh (plop at redbrick.dcu.ie):

> That wouldn't be a problem if it wasn't open sourced then, or if it was
> made more restrictive so you can't read the source but the microkernel
> API was well documented

At the risk of beating my point to death, and then dancing a jig on its
grave:  An unmaintainable codebase remains unmaintainable after
open-sourcing.





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