From: krewat@kilonet.net (Arthur Krewat)
Subject: [TUHS] Source code abundance?
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 14:18:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <32fbfeec-a3eb-796b-c243-5c6af478ea04@kilonet.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.02.1703011325190.87499@frieza.hoshinet.org>
The site is rife with warez, I understand that, I was wondering about
the "legality" of distributing that source code, and if legal, if it had
been archived somewhere else already.
On 3/1/2017 1:27 PM, Steve Nickolas wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Mar 2017, Henry Bent wrote:
>
>> They decide, arbitrarily and with no real legal basis, that "if
>> something is older than x arbitrary date, it must be OK to
>> distribute," or "if something is for an operating system that no one
>> really uses, it must be OK to distribute." Why they do not get shut
>> down is a mystery to me. I believe the concept started with old games
>> for DOS and has spread to include operating systems and other software.
>
> I openly used a profane word referring to bovine excrement as my
> opinion of this concept of "abandonware".
>
> It's just warez, plain and simple.
>
> -uso.
>
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Thread overview: 85+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-01 18:01 Arthur Krewat
2017-03-01 18:07 ` Cory Smelosky
2017-03-01 18:13 ` Henry Bent
2017-03-01 18:27 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-03-01 19:18 ` Arthur Krewat [this message]
2017-03-01 19:25 ` Henry Bent
2017-03-01 19:29 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-03-01 19:32 ` Henry Bent
2017-03-01 19:49 ` Random832
2017-03-01 19:51 ` Warner Losh
2017-03-01 20:18 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-03-01 20:28 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-01 20:32 ` Warner Losh
2017-03-02 13:55 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2017-03-02 14:15 ` Jim Capp
2017-03-02 1:22 ` Jason Stevens
2017-03-02 6:50 ` Cory Smelosky
2017-03-02 13:36 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-04 3:29 ` Warren Toomey
2017-03-04 12:51 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-06 15:33 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2017-03-06 15:57 ` ron minnich
2017-03-06 16:20 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-03-06 22:52 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-07 6:52 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2017-03-07 13:25 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-06 16:21 ` Dan Cross
2017-03-06 16:45 ` Ron Natalie
2017-03-06 20:50 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-03-07 15:07 ` Ron Natalie
2017-03-07 15:13 ` Ron Natalie
2017-03-07 15:28 ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-07 19:44 ` Ron Natalie
2017-03-06 18:00 ` ron minnich
2017-03-06 18:22 ` Dan Cross
2017-03-06 19:24 ` Nemo
2017-03-06 16:48 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-06 15:57 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-06 22:29 ` ron minnich
2017-03-06 22:59 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-06 23:31 ` Steve Johnson
2017-03-06 23:32 ` Cory Smelosky
2017-03-06 23:44 ` Steve Johnson
2017-03-06 23:48 ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-06 23:53 ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-07 0:42 ` Warren Toomey
2017-03-07 0:33 ` Random832
2017-03-07 0:50 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-06 16:19 ` Jason Stevens
2017-03-06 19:06 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2017-03-06 20:32 ` ron minnich
2017-03-06 19:36 ` Warren Toomey
2017-03-06 20:17 ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-06 22:19 ` Warren Toomey
2017-03-03 20:06 Noel Chiappa
2017-03-03 20:28 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-03 23:12 ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-03 23:56 ` Wesley Parish
2017-03-04 0:29 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-03-04 1:01 ` Henry Bent
[not found] ` <CAH1jEzZPonQuq_4YJWN=cpaB9J8q2+TU-zRWx+Bg+29SUvfOVQ@mail.gmail.com>
2017-03-04 3:23 ` Nick Downing
2017-03-04 10:04 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-03-04 16:28 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-04 16:34 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-05 19:15 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-03-05 19:25 ` Warner Losh
2017-03-05 19:55 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-06 9:35 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-03-06 0:13 ` Josh Good
2017-03-05 15:44 ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-05 18:26 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-03-05 18:55 ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-05 19:10 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-03-05 21:36 ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-05 22:03 ` Mutiny
2017-03-04 15:39 Noel Chiappa
2017-03-04 16:02 ` Jason Stevens
2017-03-04 17:53 ` Jacob Goense
2017-03-04 18:37 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-03-04 18:38 ` Ron Natalie
2017-03-04 20:39 ` Cory Smelosky
2017-03-04 21:05 ` Jacob Goense
2017-03-05 17:54 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-03-05 18:24 ` Mutiny
2017-03-08 12:26 Doug McIlroy
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