Helen,
I'm sorry for forking the discussion.......

Just goes to show that when one person starts talking about apples, while
others continue about oranges, we don't all stop talking about a bowl of
fruit. - Isn't that why we're here?

Alan

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Helen Borrie [mailto:helebor@...]
>Sent: Monday, 13 March 2000 23:59
>To: IBDI@onelist.com
>Subject: RE: [IBDI] Source under NDA
>
>
>From: Helen Borrie <helebor@...>
>
>At 10:23 PM 13-03-00 +1100, you wrote:
>>From: "Alan McDonald" <alan@...>
>>
>>I was assuming that the proprietors would continue to provide sufficient,
>>quality input toward the code in their function as a mediator and the
>>"stamper or authority" that users would always be highly
>motivated to return
>>to the "source" for their production binaries. I assume also, that I would
>>have to be travelling very fast by myself, code-wise, to keep up with the
>>mainstream of the code.
>>Alan
>
>Alan, I think you've lost the plot.
>
>This discussion isn't about "when the source goes open" - when the
>infrastructure for controlling the code is all in place, the gurus in the
>coding community have taken charge of their sections of the code,
>etc. etc.
>- but in this interim period - when the unscrupulous could potentially get
>hold of the code, get it to a compilable state and release binaries that
>could be in production in an out-of-control way. I'm talking of someone
>appending some code that, e.g. messes up a dependency.
>
>Phil's idea seems to make sense. Actually, as I understand it, some
>portions of the code need a currently-unpublished compiler, anyway, so it
>might not be an issue at all.
>
>Waaaay back, this steamed up from a caveat against making the preview
>anything but 'private', i.e. released to people known to be interested in
>being in the guru group.
>
>Helen
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