Rick wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 17:14:21 +0200, Hadron wrote:
>
>> resonator80 <w.edelstein@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>> Computerized voting systems (aka DREs or Direct Recording Electronic)
>>> must be based on an operating system, for example, Windows or Linux.
>>>
>>> Linux has the advantage of being open so that all the source code can
>>> be open. Windows source code will not be opened to anyone.
>>
>> Why not? You *DO* realise that OSS runs on Windows too don't you?
>
> You DO realize that Windows source code is NOT open to everyone, don't
> you?
>
You do realize that voting machines are not possible with GPL3 code in some
countries?
Just to put a different tag to the discussion.
Since the voting machines have to be made to enforce that only "allowed"
code gets executed, the same thing as with TiVo suddenly rears its ugly
head. Thus GPL3 can be actually a NoNO for voting machines
I know, now the GPL3 supporters come out and tell us to just use GPL2 in
that case. As in all the other cases, where GPL3 makes life somewhat
inconvenient.
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