>
> I have a few ideas of my own.. but for now, I'd like to hear other members
> thoughts on the matter. Ultimately, it might necessarily involve bringing
> the rights holders and/or publishers over on to "our side".
>
I wouldn't. I've already heard them many times.
This has been gone through nu
"Claiming that any MSFT product is "abandonware" is absurd. They DO very
much care."
You dang well know it. Do you even have any idea just how much of Windows
386 is still in the NT5 / Win10 codebase?! ;-)
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 9:26 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
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> On 3/30/16 6:26 PM, Paul Koning w
On 3/30/16 6:26 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
I have a few ideas of my own.. but for now, I'd like to hear other members
thoughts on the matter. Ultimately, it might necessarily involve bringing
the rights holders and/or publishers over on to "our side".
Yes, that's precisely correct. And doing
> On Mar 30, 2016, at 7:44 PM, drlegendre . wrote:
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> It cannot be overemphasized, that this is one of those situations wherein
> it seriously behooves the enthusiast community to sort this one out on our
> own, before some heavy-handed lawyer types - with big dollar signs in their
> eyes - sor
(As as side-note, it's of interest that arcade and home video game console
ROMs, from roughly the same era, don't seem to fall into the abandonware
class.. at least not so far as I have seen. Is this because the copyright
holders are most often large, visible corporations? Perhaps, but it's also
c
It cannot be overemphasized, that this is one of those situations wherein
it seriously behooves the enthusiast community to sort this one out on our
own, before some heavy-handed lawyer types - with big dollar signs in their
eyes - sorts all of it for us.. because we all know how that would most
li
On Wed, 30 Mar 2016, Mouse wrote:
As I understand the term, the rights owner has to be nonexistent or to
have proved unidentifiable or uncontactable (re which see below). The
case where the owner clearly exists but demonstrably does not care
about the software is, to my mind, a grey area.
Disu
