From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: usotsuki@buric.co (Steve Nickolas) Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 13:27:17 -0500 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] Source code abundance? In-Reply-To: References: <23bbfb06-2de6-a9e1-0786-3f46d17c1192@kilonet.net> Message-ID: 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.