> and hope they kept a copy of the source code Which from a legal perspective might be fraught with peril, at least in theory. In practice, if the company fol

> and hope they kept a copy of the source code Which from a legal perspective might be fraught with peril, at least in theory. In practice, if the company folded then it'd depend entirely on the litigiousness of the current owner of the copyright, which could range from "nobody" to "some holding company consisting almost entirely of lawyers chomping at the bit to eat you for dinner".