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Originally Posted by Photon
The best chance of getting a source released is to promise the inventor that you'll make his wheel that much better  |
Chances are that it will no longer be
his wheel, though. Might not want to release his source once he realises that.
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Another is to convince him he might die tomorrow and his sources should be preserved for posterity.
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As a culture we learn and grow through grieving. If a coder dies and his code goes with him, it's important that we grieve the loss of his code if not the coder. How can we become more than we are now if we keep softening the blow?
D.