1 Mar
2017
1 Mar
'17
7:27 p.m.
On Wed, 1 Mar 2017, Henry Bent wrote:
They decide, arbitrarily and with no real legal basis,
that "if
something is older than x arbitrary date, it must be OK to distribute,"
or "if something is for an operating system that no one really uses, it
must be OK to distribute." Why they do not get shut down is a mystery
to me. I believe the concept started with old games for DOS and has
spread to include operating systems and other software.
I openly used a profane word referring to bovine excrement as my opinion
of this concept of "abandonware".
It's just warez, plain and simple.
-uso.