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Abandonware should fall back into the public domain

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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.

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Rick C. Hodgin

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Abandonware should fall back into the public domain "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> (Rick C. Hodgin) - 2017-11-30 06:27 +1200
  Re: Abandonware should fall back into the public domain Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> (Richard Damon) - 2017-11-30 22:18 +1200
    Re: Abandonware should fall back into the public domain Rick C Hodgin <rickchodginjesus@gmail.com> (Rick C Hodgin) - 2017-12-03 09:36 +1200
    Re: Abandonware should fall back into the public domain Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> (Jerry Stuckle) - 2017-12-03 19:48 +1200

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