Making the legal protection of copyright contingent on publication of Source Code is an excellent idea; I hadn't thought of it exactly like that, but you're spot-on.
I'd like to see it made law eventually that *all* software be published in Source Code form, even if users are not permitted to pass around copies. (That's how it always used to be; and anyway, concealing the Source Code to Windows never prevented anyone from making unauthorised copies .....) I said driver code *first* because it's been demonstrated clearly that having driver Source Code available is beneficial, but I see no reason to stop there.
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@ Edward Barrow
Making the legal protection of copyright contingent on publication of Source Code is an excellent idea; I hadn't thought of it exactly like that, but you're spot-on.
I'd like to see it made law eventually that *all* software be published in Source Code form, even if users are not permitted to pass around copies. (That's how it always used to be; and anyway, concealing the Source Code to Windows never prevented anyone from making unauthorised copies .....) I said driver code *first* because it's been demonstrated clearly that having driver Source Code available is beneficial, but I see no reason to stop there.