Re: "KDE For Windows 10 Exiles" Campaign

On Thu, 5 Jun 2025 10:02:39 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man
<rotflol2@hotmail.com> wrote:

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On 2025-06-05, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:06:50 +0200, Steve Hayes wrote:
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There should be a law that says that when any commercial software firm
ceases to support software, it should immediately be put in the public
domain and made open source.

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You really think Government intervention can make things better?

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Well, copyright is a product of the government and the government
determines the length of copyright protection.  So the government is
already involved.
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However, enforcing it become open source would be a new intervention,
and one I don't think is warranted.  Not when we already have a choice
in many circumstances to chose something that is already open source.

Perhaps it should be narrowed down a bit. Any abandonware whose
abandonment would make existing data inaccessible should be made
freeware and open source.


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