On Fri, 4 Jul 2008, Manish Chakravarty wrote: > Please mark such posts [OT]
Indeed, not quite sure whether "legal code" and "computer code" are related. It's a case for -advocacy mailing lists, I guess. But even then, the Roman law is far from the first one made public. There are things more than a millenium older than that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Hammurabi (Enjoy the discussion elsewhere - [EMAIL PROTECTED] is suggested :) FrankH. > > Thanks, > Manish > > On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> According to traditional, semi-legendary historical accounts preserved in >> Livy <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livy>, during the earliest period of >> the [Romane] Republic the laws were kept secret by the >> *pontifices<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontifex_Maximus> >> * and other representatives of the >> patrician<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrician>class, and were enforced >> with untoward severity, especially against the >> plebeian <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plebeian> class. A plebeian named >> Terentilius <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terentilius> proposed in 462 >> BC<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/462_BC>that an official legal >> code <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_%28law%29> should be published, so >> that plebeians could not be surprised and would know the law. >> >> Patricians long opposed this request, but in ca. 450 >> BC<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/450_BC>, >> a Decemvirate <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decemviri>, or board of ten >> men, was appointed to draw up a code. ... >> >> The first Decemvirate <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decemvirate> completed >> the first ten codes in 450 BC <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/450_BC>. Here >> is how Livy describes their creation, "...every citizen should quietly >> consider each point, then talk it over with his friends, and, finally, bring >> forward for public discussion any additions or subtractions which seemed >> desirable." In 449 BC <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/449_BC>, the second >> Decemvirate completed the last two codes, and after a secessio >> plebis<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secessio_plebis>to force the Senate to >> consider them, the >> *Law of the Twelve Tables* was formally promulgated. The Twelve Tables >> were literally drawn up on twelve ivory tablets (Livy says >> bronze<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze>) >> which were posted in the Roman >> Forum<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Forum>so that all Romans could read >> and know them. - from Twelve >> Tables <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Tables>, Wikipedia >> >> Shouldn't this be considered the origin of Open Source ? >> >> -- Sivasubramanian Muthusamy >> Turiya >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/sivasubramanianmuthusamy >> _______________________________________________ >> ug-bosug mailing list >> List-Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> List-Owner: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 >> > > > > -- > Manish Chakravarty > http://manish-chaks.livejournal.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No good can come from selling your freedom, not for all the gold in the world, for the value of this heavenly gift far exceeds that of any fortune on earth. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org