> History has shown that eventually the code comes out rather than being socked away in properietary hell. When people talk about reforming copyright there is

> History has shown that eventually the code comes out rather than being socked away in properietary hell. When people talk about reforming copyright there is usually a comment about GPL with a standard answer: copyright escrow. If we just have rules in places that guaranties that the code eventually comes out rather than being socked away in properietary hell then 99% of the purpose of copyleft has been served. Last Friday in tech news there was an entry about a deal between a DRM company and a game company that expires, so "owners" of the game can no longer install the game. Proprietary code for games do not usually come out, so there is some real worry that the games are now closed down forever. I wonder how supportive Juniper, Comcast, EMC, and Netflix would be to copyright escrow.