From: Henry Bent
just because you can find source (or binaries, or CD
images, etc.) on
the internet, that doesn't make it the least bit legal. ... The concept
of "abandonware" has no legal footing whatsoever.
True; but if all the copies of a particular item are discarded, one can make
all the lawyers on the planet as happy as clams, and it won't do a bit of
good. Save the bits, _then_ work out the legal issues, is my thinking on
priorities.
Noel
(PS: 'Internet' is spelled with a capital; there are many internets, but only
one Internet, just as there are many white houses, but only one White House. If
the technical community, which _does_ understand the difference, can't get it's
act together, how can we expect the media, etc, to do the right thing?)