* Levi Pearson [Tue, 22 Jan 2008 at 10:15 -0700] <quote> > Von Fugal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > In fact sad sad is the day you want to use an old piece of software > > (maybe a game, most likely in fact) that is long gone and not only no > > longer supported but it's not even purchasable AT ALL. It's terribly > > selfish of one to think that nobody will ever want to use their software > > and improve upon it once they are gone or have lost interest in it. That > > may be their "right" under current law, but it's a crying shame when it > > happens. > > It's only sad in the sense that it's sad when you don't get your way. > It's just the way things work that if a manufactured product (and a > binary program is, in a way, manufactured from source code) ceases to > be produced and sold, then eventually you can't buy and use it easily > anymore. Sure, it would be nice if people would open source their > software so that you could play all the old-school games you feel > nostalgic about, but they have no moral imperative to do so, and you > have no right to compel them to. > > Free software advocates really do seem to have a tremendous sense of > entitlement!
I never said I or anyone was entitled to anything. I may have meant something along the lines of software writers aren't entitled to bring their creations to the grave with them, but saying someone lacks a certain entitlement doesn't necessitate another inverse entitlement. In fact what I actually said was that it was selfish. Many people do selfish things all the time, and there's nothing anyone can do about it. They are completely justified in a legal sense to being selfish, but that doesn't make it not selfish. Von Fugal
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