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Lawrence D'Oliveiro
ldo at geek-central.gen.new_zealand
Sat Sep 4 21:41:38 EDT 2010
In message <mailman.434.1283568372.29448.python-list at python.org>, MRAB
wrote:
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro<ldo at geek-central.gen.new_zealand> writes:
>>
>> Wonder why Sun’s licence explicitly forbade its use in danger-critical
>> areas like nuclear power plants and the like, then?
>
> I thought it was just that if it wasn't explicitly forbidden then
> someone might try to use it and then sue if something went wrong, even
> though common sense would have said that it was a bad idea in the first
> place! :-)
But you’ll notice that Free Software comes with no such restrictions. In
fact, it is contrary to commonly-accepted Free Software guidelines to impose
any sort of restrictions on areas of use.
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