Abandonware Petition
from the aging-software-pirates dept
Why don't software makers make older versions of their products public license? How much can software that is more than 7 years old be worth to them? Sign this petition if you would like to see outdated software distributed freely. Realistically, I'm not sure whether this is really necessary. Who enforces the copyrights on outdated software anyway?
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Won't Happen
I doubt you could even get so much as a pledge from the publisher to not pursue copyright infringement action against people who copy old versions, and again it's because that type of position could get them in trouble with 3rd party suppliers of parts of their product.
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