Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe(a)math.utah.edu> wrote: Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote: License managers now count as DRM, under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (though no such laws had been passed when the license managers were first created). So: is it worth breaking the law in many countries, to maintain a historical curiosity? Personally, I would throw DRM-encrusted software, and the hardware that is dependent on it, into the dustbin of history. Its creators had fair warning that they were making their products unusable after they stopped caring to maintain them. They didn't care about their place in history, nor about their users. They did it anyway, for short-term profit and to harass those people foolish enough to be their customers. Their memes should not be passed to future generations. As Sir Walter Scott suggested in another context, they "doubly dying, shall go down, to the vile dust, from whence [they] sprung, unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung". John