21 Nov
2005
21 Nov
'05
02:03
Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Saturday 2005-11-19 at 16:20 -0500, James Knott wrote:
While it may have been proposed, it is still up to the author, whether they want to release it or not, as it should be. You cannot unilaterally take someone's work, "abandoned" or not and declare it open.
Except if it is maken a law. Users of a program abandoned by the company might them claim protection, ie, forced disclosure of the code.
That's called expropriation. How'd you feel, if the govermnent decided to take some of your land, because you weren't doing anything with it? As much as I support open source software, doing what you propose still amounts to theft of someone's property and is extremely offensive.