On Thu, 5 Jun 2025 10:02:39 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man
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On 2025-06-05, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
On Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:06:50 +0200, Steve Hayes wrote:
There should be a law that says that when any commercial software firm
ceases to support software, it should immediately be put in the public
domain and made open source.
You really think Government intervention can make things better?
Well, copyright is a product of the government and the government
determines the length of copyright protection. So the government is
already involved.
However, enforcing it become open source would be a new intervention,
and one I don't think is warranted. Not when we already have a choice
in many circumstances to chose something that is already open source.
Perhaps it should be narrowed down a bit. Any abandonware whose
abandonment would make existing data inaccessible should be made
freeware and open source.
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Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
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