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Geert Poels wrote in message <350952B3.4D456828@ibm.net>...
>Hello,
>
>I would like to hear some opinions on the following :
>
>To avoid that certain(all ?) softwares would "disappear" after x years,
>wouldn't it be nice/handy/... that this software becomes freeware after
>x years.  Software companies keep the copyrights of course.
>
>After their initial release a lot of softwares will never be sold
>anymore
>and most likely neither be available in any shop.
>
>For what purpose could one ask ?
>Nostalgia ?  A bit I guess; the software will most likely not be of any
>real use anymore.
>It would, on the other hand, be a true gesture if also the source code
>was released.
>
>
>Geert
>
>
    I agree with you guys but as necronaut wrote it is not a government

decision. The point is how can we deliver this message to the various

software companies because I don't think that the fact that we discuss it in

the newsgroup and only that is enough.

    I think also that sending one emal to any of these software companies is

still not enough. The other thing that I can think is to send many of as

emails to the companies asking them to make this idea true.

    Could you please reply to my message and let me know if you've got a

better idea. Think that this software that has been 'out of date' can be

quite useful for learning purposes. For example and earlier version of

Borland C can be useful to new programmers who want to learn the

fundamentals of C and they don't need the state of the art last version of

C++. Do you get my point? Let me know.


Lefteris
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