Re: [NTLK] OT: Copyrights, Abandonware and such...

From: Eric L. Strobel (fyzycyst_at_home.com)
Date: Fri Sep 07 2001 - 14:51:42 EDT


at the temporal coordinates: 9/7/01 2:34 PM, the entity known as Laurent
Daudelin at laurent_daudelin_at_fanniemae.com conveyed the following:

>
> I don't know if I'm tired of not sleeping enough, but am I the only one to
> notice that over the last few days, there's been a ton of messages to
> argument about copyrights and what one should do regarding "abandonware".
>
> I'm never complaining on anything, but I found that the last few days, the
> traffic has been getting almost out of proportion, specially with the
> addition of those discussion messages.
>
> I don't want to give the idea that I want to shut anybody up, but could we
> get back to actual topics, maybe? If somebody still has some arguments, you
> are welcomed to send them, privately, to the concerned parties and I'm sure
> they will reply accordingly ;-)
>
> Thanks all!
>
> -Laurent.

Given that more and more Newt s/w is falling into the abandonware category,
this debate will have to occur *someday*, so why not now? I'd argue that,
given the increasing level of interest on this list in the topic of
'abandonware' over the last few months, it is actually quite 'on topic'.

Cheers.

- Eric.

{Actually, this is a conspiracy to get a number of us to the top of the
monthly statistics list. :-) }

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