On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 03:13:53PM +0300, Eli Marmor wrote: > Tzahi Fadida wrote: > > > nothing to do with open source. For example, the govrenment could > > have required for the bid that the resulting software should be > > made available to the govrenment or/and to the public. > > Isn't it exactly what they do? > Even Microsoft gave them the full source code of all its products...
What's exactly the point of having the source if you can't use it? If SAP/MS goes down or discontinues the product, can the source code be used for further maintinance? Did anybody bother test that it can actually build and work? -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
