Comment on abandonware empires
DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year agoI don’t think you’ve really thought this through.
If you force a company to continue support they will just give it a stupid price tag. “Sure we will continue to support this $250k microscope, if you would like us to write a windows 11 client for you that will cost $1m.”
Veraxus@kbin.social 1 year ago
That sort of thing already happens in the enterprise world. If they want to abandon it, or even unintentionally abandon it, then it becomes public domain.
DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
I think you missed my point.
I’m saying that you can’t legislate that abandoned software must become public domain. If you asked a company whether it was abandoned they would just say yes it’s still supported, with a completely impractical price tag for support.