Am Sonntag, 7. September 2008 schrieb Travis Siegel: > I'm > personally of the opinion that if the company no longer sells, > supports, or in the case of most companies, actively discourages the > use of said program, then that program should fall into public domain, > and no longer be liable for copyright infringement. Thus, all those > commercial dos games such as the kings quest, colonel's bequest, > civilization, and so on should have no penalty whatsoever for copying > them. True, but keep in mind that what is old by PC standards can be re-used on modern hardware such as mobile phones, PDAs etc. The displays of such devices is most of the time very small, like VGA was, and the CPU isn't very fast, like the 386-25 or something like this.
Thus, these old games open a sales market for such games, even though they are no longer available on the PC platform. This makes the copyright a little bit more complicated, don't you think? Greetings, Andreas. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
