On Fri, 4 Jul 2008, Manish Chakravarty wrote:
> Please mark such posts [OT]
Indeed, not quite sure whether "legal code" and "computer code" are
related. It's a case for -advocacy mailing lists, I guess.
But even then, the Roman law is far from the first one made public. There
are things more than a millenium older than that:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Hammurabi
(Enjoy the discussion elsewhere - [EMAIL PROTECTED] is
suggested :)
FrankH.
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> Thanks,
> Manish
>
> On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy <
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> According to traditional, semi-legendary historical accounts preserved in
>> Livy <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livy>, during the earliest period of
>> the [Romane] Republic the laws were kept secret by the
>> *pontifices<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontifex_Maximus>
>> * and other representatives of the
>> patrician<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrician>class, and were enforced
>> with untoward severity, especially against the
>> plebeian <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plebeian> class. A plebeian named
>> Terentilius <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terentilius> proposed in 462
>> BC<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/462_BC>that an official legal
>> code <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_%28law%29> should be published, so
>> that plebeians could not be surprised and would know the law.
>>
>> Patricians long opposed this request, but in ca. 450
>> BC<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/450_BC>,
>> a Decemvirate <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decemviri>, or board of ten
>> men, was appointed to draw up a code. ...
>>
>> The first Decemvirate <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decemvirate> completed
>> the first ten codes in 450 BC <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/450_BC>. Here
>> is how Livy describes their creation, "...every citizen should quietly
>> consider each point, then talk it over with his friends, and, finally, bring
>> forward for public discussion any additions or subtractions which seemed
>> desirable." In 449 BC <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/449_BC>, the second
>> Decemvirate completed the last two codes, and after a secessio
>> plebis<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secessio_plebis>to force the Senate to
>> consider them, the
>> *Law of the Twelve Tables* was formally promulgated. The Twelve Tables
>> were literally drawn up on twelve ivory tablets (Livy says
>> bronze<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze>)
>> which were posted in the Roman
>> Forum<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Forum>so that all Romans could read
>> and know them. - from Twelve
>> Tables <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Tables>, Wikipedia
>>
>> Shouldn't this be considered the origin of Open Source ?
>>
>> -- Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
>> Turiya
>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/sivasubramanianmuthusamy
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