Hello Manish, What is [OT] please ?
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Manish Chakravarty <manishchaks at gmail.com> wrote: > Please mark such posts [OT] > > Thanks, > Manish > > On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy < > isolatedn at gmail.com> 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> ug-bosug mailing list >> List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org >> List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org >> List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 >> > > > > -- > Manish Chakravarty > http://manish-chaks.livejournal.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > ug-bosug mailing list > List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org > List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org > List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 > -- http://www.linkedin.com/in/sivasubramanianmuthusamy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ug-bosug/attachments/20080704/c92ffede/attachment.html>
