Ultimately though, it's still not your right to force copyright. You can go the abandonware route, but you can't just blindly ignore it - or try to badger people into doing it.
This is the exact problem I have with the Slashdot monkeys. Simon Fred Bloggs wrote: > Well said Howard. > > This two month deadline is a good idea. I'm sure it will just > illustrate my original point (before I got shouted down) that nobody > really cares about software copyrights for a dead machine. > > Unless they want to sell of course. > > >> From: Howard Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Reply-To: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Copyright etc >> Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 17:12:26 +0100 >> >> At 17:03 15/08/02, you wrote: >>>> I've been a bit quiet lately but I thought I'd just chirp in - I >>>> support your plan Colin, copyrighted material retains copyright, >>>> but if no-one >>> can >>> ^^^^ >>>> be bothered to enforce it, even if you seek them out for two >>>> months, >>> ignore >>> it. >>> >>> Erm... the plan about the Copyright software was Gavin Smith's post >>> ... not mine >>> ! >>> >>> Colin >>> ==== >>> Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the Sam >>> Website: http://www.quazar.clara.net/sam/ >> >> Gavin and the SC newsletter hasn't been eaten by giant >> anteaters??????!!! Don't believe you! > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Join the world's largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > http://www.hotmail.com Looking for an accomplished Win32 developer to work on your project in the Seattle area? Please check out my resume and portfolio: http://home.earthlink.net/~simoncooke/resume.htm ; http://home.earthlink.net/~simoncooke/portfolio.htm http://home.earthlink.net/~simoncooke/otherhistory.htm Experienced in UI development and design, applications architecture, and shipping projects on time and on budget.
