Greetings, Last night, I dreamed of a new law.
This new Software Development Lifecycle Law, related to any and all software unsupported by the original vendor, manufacturer or developer (OEM). This law would require that the source code escrow agents of these supposedly obsolete and unsupported software products and systems either demonstrate contract with an agent supporting this code system or end their stewardship and disclose the source code in escrow. In this dream, I was using Dbase and editing with Wordstar, as they were now open source, ( I was thinking about switching to Edix :^). In this dream Micro$oft suddenly was supporting all versions of its software starting at MS DOS 3.0. All windows versions prior to Windows 2000 were supported under a contract with Computer Associates. While at a ridiculous price, windows 2000 and onward were supported directly by Micro$soft. Warty Warthog under this law, was placed in the public domain... Can anyone else think of the unintended consequences of this type of Software Development Lifecycle Law (SDLCL)? Thank you and... Kindest Regards, Paul Flint /************************************ Paul Flint Barre Open Systems Institute 17 Averill Street Barre, VT 05641 http://www.bosivt.org http://www.flint.com/home skype: flintinfotech Work: (202) 537-0480 Fax: (703) 852-7089 Free advice .~. is worth /V\ exactly what /( )\ you pay for it. ^^-^^ -- Microsoft has a majority market share https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
