Hello Open Solaris,
> 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ug-bosug/attachments/20080704/4eb1f45d/attachment.html>
