Imagine a world in which HyperCard had been open sourced 20 years ago?

[Richard Gaskin]

Scott Kane wrote:
> Ah - but that's quite another thing.  A repositry of code as opposed to Rev 
> being open source.  I think a lot of people would be quite happy to visit a 
> repositry of code (and use the code).

Provided of course the license for such code allowed them to use it.

With literally hundreds of FOSS licenses floating around and new ones 
being written each week, and considering few if any of these have been 
tested in court to they are in the end largely speculative, unless the 
license chosen were unusually simple (like X11) it would require 10 
hours of paid legal consultation for every hour of programming saved by 
such code.  ;)

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