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From: <fiona.fitzgerald@notes.royalsun.com> > Leif thinks - time to begin to open source OS/400... > > I can't agree with that. OS/400 has never had a virus. It's a robust, > stable system. > I can't understand what that has to do with anything, except that you are saying that open sourcing OS/400 would compromise its security, but that implies that OS/400 security is just "security by obscurity" (which by the way it actually is :-). No, the idea was, that once a product wanes, it should go open source. Lawrence Lessig actually has some ideas about this, like copyright for software should be only 3-5 years, then the source should become open source.
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