From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: krewat@kilonet.net (Arthur Krewat) Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 14:18:25 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] Source code abundance? In-Reply-To: References: <23bbfb06-2de6-a9e1-0786-3f46d17c1192@kilonet.net> Message-ID: <32fbfeec-a3eb-796b-c243-5c6af478ea04@kilonet.net> 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I understand that, I was wondering about the "legality" of distributing that source code, and if legal, if it had been archived somewhere else already.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. >