Re: Looking for either Turbo Debugger or Turbo C 2.01 Professional

From	Paul Bartlett <bartlett@panix.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject	Re: Looking for either Turbo Debugger or Turbo C 2.01 Professional
Date	2011-05-22 15:05 -0400
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On Sat, 21 May 2011, Ross Ridge wrote:

> Fritz Wuehler wrote:
>> Borland is long, long gone.
>
> Uh, no, they got bought out in 2009, but they still exist as a
> subsidary.  I don't know if they still actually sell TASM 5, but as
> of last week that product page was still there.

There is always the legal problem of copyright concerning what some
call abandonware.  Just because a vendor (even shareware) no longer
sells a product -- such as Micro$oft's QuickBasic -- or because the
vendor is even no longer in business, does not mean that the product is
in the public domain and is legally (and ethically) available to all
and sundry.  Yes, there may be bootleg copies of this and that here and
there, but they may not be ethical and legal.  I fully admit that this
is a problem regarding perfectly good and desirable software. 
Nevertheless, intellectual property rights are intellectual property
rights, even if we do not like it.  Whether Borland's TASM (or a
corresponding debugger) is still available legally (or whether Borland
even still exists as an entity), I don't honestly know, but ethically
one should only obtain and use a legal copy.

-- 
Paul Bartlett

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Looking for either Turbo Debugger or Turbo C 2.01 Professional Single Stage to Orbit <alex.buell@munted.org.uk> - 2011-05-21 16:17 +0100
  Re: Looking for either Turbo Debugger or Turbo C 2.01 Professional Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> - 2011-05-21 13:50 -0400
    Re: Looking for either Turbo Debugger or Turbo C 2.01 Professional Single Stage to Orbit <alex.buell@munted.org.uk> - 2011-05-22 00:37 +0100
    Re: Looking for either Turbo Debugger or Turbo C 2.01 Professional Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-201105.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> - 2011-05-22 03:04 +0200
      Re: Looking for either Turbo Debugger or Turbo C 2.01 Professional Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> - 2011-05-21 23:07 -0400
        Re: Looking for either Turbo Debugger or Turbo C 2.01 Professional Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-201105.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> - 2011-05-22 13:27 +0200
        Re: Looking for either Turbo Debugger or Turbo C 2.01 Professional Paul Bartlett <bartlett@panix.com> - 2011-05-22 15:05 -0400
          Re: Looking for either Turbo Debugger or Turbo C 2.01 Professional Single Stage to Orbit <alex.buell@munted.org.uk> - 2011-05-22 21:06 +0100
            Re: Looking for either Turbo Debugger or Turbo C 2.01 Professional Paul Bartlett <bartlett@panix.com> - 2011-05-23 19:22 -0400
              Re: Looking for either Turbo Debugger or Turbo C 2.01 Professional Jim Leonard <mobygamer@gmail.com> - 2011-05-25 07:37 -0700
          Re: Looking for either Turbo Debugger or Turbo C 2.01 Professional "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@noavailemail.cmm> - 2011-05-22 18:50 -0400
          Re: Looking for either Turbo Debugger or Turbo C 2.01 Professional Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-201105.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> - 2011-05-24 18:40 +0200
            Re: Looking for either Turbo Debugger or Turbo C 2.01 Professional Jim Leonard <mobygamer@gmail.com> - 2011-05-25 07:30 -0700

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