Abandonware should fall back into the public domain

Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Date	2017-11-30 06:21 -0800
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Subject	Abandonware should fall back into the public domain
From	"Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com>

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As the years go by and more and more previously commercial (and even
open source) software makes the move into abandonware, where the original
copyright and/or patent holder is no longer maintaining or developing the
software ... my view is it should move into the area of the public domain,
legally protected for any use at that point, with all restrictions on use
rights completely removed, allowing binary deconstruction, reverse
engineering, machine code extraction, essentially use for any purpose.

It makes no sense that abandonware should not receive a legal standing,
such that any person or company who approaches it for use is actually
protected under the law.  They should have that protection.  The use of
that pre-existing tool should be at their disposal when the entity who
originally held rights to it walks away.

-- 
Rick C. Hodgin

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Abandonware should fall back into the public domain "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2017-11-30 06:21 -0800
  Re: Abandonware should fall back into the public domain gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2017-11-30 14:59 +0000
    Re: Abandonware should fall back into the public domain "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2017-11-30 07:02 -0800
  Re: Abandonware should fall back into the public domain John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2017-11-30 17:17 +0000
    Re: Abandonware should fall back into the public domain "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2017-11-30 09:29 -0800
    Re: Abandonware should fall back into the public domain "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2017-11-30 09:39 -0800
      Your C Question (Was: Abandonware should fall back into the public domain) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2017-11-30 18:37 +0000
        Abandonware should fall back into the public domain "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2017-11-30 10:50 -0800
          Abandonware should fall back into the public domain Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2017-11-30 12:16 -0800
      Re: Abandonware should fall back into the public domain "Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid_chris_thomasson@invalid.invalid> - 2017-11-30 14:27 -0800
        Re: Abandonware should fall back into the public domain "Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid_chris_thomasson@invalid.invalid> - 2017-11-30 14:35 -0800
          Re: Abandonware should fall back into the public domain Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2017-11-30 15:37 -0800
            Re: Abandonware should fall back into the public domain "Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid_chris_thomasson@invalid.invalid> - 2017-11-30 15:59 -0800
              Re: Abandonware should fall back into the public domain Manfred <noname@invalid.add> - 2017-12-02 17:31 +0100
                Re: Abandonware should fall back into the public domain mcheung63@gmail.com - 2017-12-08 23:20 -0800
                Re: Abandonware should fall back into the public domain Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2017-12-09 02:55 -0800
  Re: Abandonware should fall back into the public domain Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2017-11-30 22:33 -0500
    Re: Abandonware should fall back into the public domain "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2017-12-01 05:12 -0800
      Re: Abandonware should fall back into the public domain Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2017-12-01 13:37 -0600
        Re: Abandonware should fall back into the public domain David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2017-12-01 12:00 -0800
          Re: Abandonware should fall back into the public domain "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2017-12-01 12:37 -0800
          Re: Abandonware should fall back into the public domain gordonb.yc2sy@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt) - 2017-12-02 01:55 -0600
  Re: Abandonware should fall back into the public domain "Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid_chris_thomasson@invalid.invalid> - 2017-12-01 12:42 -0800
  Re: Abandonware should fall back into the public domain "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2017-12-02 22:33 +0800

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