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Ah, they said, but you see we couldn't then indemnify the code. Oh? I am, I said, unaware of any situation in which Microsoft makes good damages to a company if its software fails at the wrong time. That's not what they mean by "indemnify". They mean: they couldn't guarantee that all the code in Windows was valid (insecure, but valid). Besides, intellectual property is all we have in the way of corporate assets, other than maybe our people.
The 'best' counter to The Cathedral and the Bazaar uses printer drivers as an example of 'unloved' code nobody would bother with?
Exscuse me, but what was the code that Richard Stallman couldn't get from the vendor that so angered him that he started the FSF? Yup. Printer drivers.
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Exscuse me, but what was the code that Richard Stallman couldn't get from the vendor that so angered him that he started the FSF? Yup. Printer drivers.