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not the same thing. more accurately, while i rarely have the need to run decades old software, i should have the right to. look at attempts to preserve old game
by em-bee 3y ago
not the same thing. more accurately, while i rarely have the need to run decades old software, i should have the right to. look at attempts to preserve old games. it's the same story. it should be legal to archive copies of old software. ideally with the source. that doesn't mean that the source should be free now, but it should most definitely be available once the copyright expires.
- endisneigh 3y agoSo you agree old code should be free?
- em-bee 3y agoonce the copyright expires it is obviously going to be free, yes. but someone needs to preserve the code until then.
- endisneigh 3y agoOk. You can give away your code now so it can be “preserved” and go into the public domain in 70 years. I prefer to get paid instead since freely available code is not going to be as profitable.
- em-bee 3y agoyou do not need to give away your code in order to allow it to be preserved. it could be locked somewhere, only to be made public after the copyright expires.