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Re: [ossig] Linux stickers?

Nitpick, but more like open standards, with proprietary components. Try manufacturing an exact duplicate of a car and see how long it'll be before the car manufacturer comes after you for violating their patents :)

Sounds more like a good argument for open standards than anything else. When we see blueprints of cars online and modifiable, then cars will truly be open source. Now if only we had those Star Trek matter synthesizers, we would truly see a revolution.

Ken

Jon Yap wrote:
Aren't cars open source? Given that one can dismantle an entire car,
improve/modify the entire engine, change the look and feel (assuming you
know how, and have the means to), and subsequently re-sell a 'new'
version...


Jon Yap

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ossig@mncc.com.my [mailto:owner-ossig@mncc.com.my]On Behalf
Of Yusmar Yahaya
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 10:58 AM
To: ossig@mncc.com.my
Subject: Re: [ossig] Linux stickers?


On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Christopher DeMarco wrote:



I dunno... in my experience mechanics tend to be pretty geeky about cars
and at  least one  other [electro]mechanical  subject -  boats,  houses,
hi-fi, computers... and it's  be interesting to  see how a  mechanic/car
geek  responds to Bob Young's  line "would you  buy a  car with the hood
welded shut"...


hmmm.. it make sense.. I'm sure they'll agree on OSS/FSF. "all cars should
be free, you only pay for the maintenance" :-)

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