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There ahould be a law that when a company goes bankrupt, the source becomes public domain. After all, the public compensate for the losses. And this law should
by tajen 11y ago
There ahould be a law that when a company goes bankrupt, the source becomes public domain. After all, the public compensate for the losses. And this law should apply to discontinued products, and discontinued features. Like Parse or Google Reader.
Open software is a huge step on civilization, so we should work on making most of it public-domain by default.
- JohnTHaller 11y agoExcept that most of these products have proprietary components that are merely licensed. The company that goes bankrupt doesn't even possess the source code let alone the right to make it public.
- tamana 11y agoThen they should post an escrow/insurance bond to perpetuate the licenses for X years.