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Abandonware should fall back into the public domain
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Rick C. Hodgin
Nov 30, 2017, 9:21:29 AM11/30/17
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As the years go by and more and more previously commercial (and even
open source) software makes the move into abandonware, where the original
copyright and/or patent holder is no longer maintaining or developing the
software ... my view is it should move into the area of the public domain,
legally protected for any use at that point, with all restrictions on use
rights completely removed, allowing binary deconstruction, reverse
engineering, machine code extraction, essentially use for any purpose.
It makes no sense that abandonware should not receive a legal standing,
such that any person or company who approaches it for use is actually
protected under the law. They should have that protection. The use of
that pre-existing tool should be at their disposal when the entity who
originally held rights to it walks away.
--
Rick C. Hodgin
open source) software makes the move into abandonware, where the original
copyright and/or patent holder is no longer maintaining or developing the
software ... my view is it should move into the area of the public domain,
legally protected for any use at that point, with all restrictions on use
rights completely removed, allowing binary deconstruction, reverse
engineering, machine code extraction, essentially use for any purpose.
It makes no sense that abandonware should not receive a legal standing,
such that any person or company who approaches it for use is actually
protected under the law. They should have that protection. The use of
that pre-existing tool should be at their disposal when the entity who
originally held rights to it walks away.
--
Rick C. Hodgin
mche...@gmail.com
Nov 30, 2017, 9:37:08 AM11/30/17
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FUCK OFF ASSHOLE
Rick C. Hodgin
Nov 30, 2017, 9:41:21 AM11/30/17
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On Thursday, November 30, 2017 at 9:37:08 AM UTC-5, mche...@gmail.com wrote:
> .. OFF ..
I love you, Mr. Cheung. I want the best for you. I want you to thrive.
I want you to have inner peace, love, and joy like you've never known.
I want you to be the full creation God intended for you before sin entered
in and destroyed everything.
I want to be your friend. I want to someone you can turn to for help,
and who I can turn to for help. I want us working together and being
like proper family members would be one to another, willing to help out
one another even to that extent.
I'm sorry you don't feel that way, Peter.
--
Rick C. Hodgin
> .. OFF ..
I love you, Mr. Cheung. I want the best for you. I want you to thrive.
I want you to have inner peace, love, and joy like you've never known.
I want you to be the full creation God intended for you before sin entered
in and destroyed everything.
I want to be your friend. I want to someone you can turn to for help,
and who I can turn to for help. I want us working together and being
like proper family members would be one to another, willing to help out
one another even to that extent.
I'm sorry you don't feel that way, Peter.
--
Rick C. Hodgin
bitrex
Nov 30, 2017, 8:38:01 PM11/30/17
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constitutes "walking away."
There are a lot of old PC games that were left behind as consumer's
interest waned in favor of newer material, but they were never released
into the public domain and someone or other held onto the rights to
them. Eventually technology caught up and it got to the point that those
games could be run in a browser window or on a virtual machine with
little overhead compared to a modern machine's processing power, and
some consumer's interest turned back toward's "vintage" gaming.
A few weekends ago my GF and I played through an old King Arthur game
called Conquests of Camelot published back in 1990 or so; I'd played it
when I was a kid and it was still an enjoyable experience all these
years later. I could've gotten it off a torrent site or something but it
was also available on gog.com packaged up in a DOSBox wrapper and ready
to go on a modern machine.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conquests_of_Camelot:_The_Search_for_the_Grail>
AFAIK the original creators are still living and retained the rights to
it and will receive a fair cut of the purchase price which in 2017 was
$5.99, which seems perfectly reasonable.
Chris Vine
Dec 1, 2017, 4:58:41 PM12/1/17
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On Thu, 30 Nov 2017 20:37:40 -0500
bitrex <bit...@de.lete.earthlink.net> wrote:
[snip]
This is off topic in a C++ newsgroup and you are responding to a known
spammer. It would be great if you could desist.
bitrex <bit...@de.lete.earthlink.net> wrote:
[snip]
This is off topic in a C++ newsgroup and you are responding to a known
spammer. It would be great if you could desist.
Rick C Hodgin
Dec 3, 2017, 12:29:30 PM12/3/17
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mche...@gmail.com
Dec 31, 2017, 10:00:25 PM12/31/17
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Rick C. Hodgin於 2017年11月30日星期四 UTC+8下午10時21分29秒寫道：
Why you post the following thing to this technical newsgroup?
Man fell in the garden of Eden, and sin entered into this world and the
world we live in today is the result. Everywhere wars, hate, death, and
destruction, people looking out only for themselves and their personal
interests, and when they do charity it's to say, "Hey look! I do charity."
Jesus Christ came into this world to save man from sin. He teaches a new
way to be. That new way is the way He intended for us before sin entered
in and destroyed everything. He restores that which was lost: our future,
our eternal relationship with Him.
God is spirit. He is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. His Son was flesh,
just like us. He came here to live under our laws and save us before God.
He completed His work at the cross after a ~3.5 year ministry, where He
was crucified and died in the flesh with our sin charged to Him. He was
innocent and had no sin of His own, and God allowed Him to receive the
sin of all who would put their faith and trust in Him, so that their sin
could be transferred (literally) from them to Him. Jesus died on the
cross, and went before God to pay the price of that sin. It was a heavy
price and it bruised God, it crushed Jesus. And on the third day, God
raised Him back to life and gave Him all authority in Heaven and on Earth.
What Jesus does for us when we come to Him and ask Him to forgive our sin,
is to restore us to eternal life. We are still here in this world for a
time, but our internal nature completely changes. We receive a new spirit
nature (John 3), and are guided from that day forward by His Holy Spirit.
Our flesh nature (sinful) is still here, and we can listen to that input,
and we can still do sinful things, but God's Holy Spirit is also there,
and our new spirit nature is also there, and everyone who is born of God
will not continue in sin for very long. God comes for us to lead us out
of sin, to even take us by the hand and drag us out of sin.
-----
Jesus didn't come to the Earth to save righteous people. He came to save
sinners.
Are you a sinner? Have you:
Ever stolen anything? Ever?
Used the Lord's name as a cuss word?
Lusted after someone who was not your spouse?
Told a lie? Ever?
Coveted after your neighbor's possessions? Ever?
All of us are guilty of these sins and more. Jesus knows this, which is
why He came here to save us. He does what we cannot do: He makes us
clean and shiny and innocent and new despite our filth and guilt in sin.
-----
You need to Jesus to forgive your sin. Ask Him to forgive you and begin
your new life with Him forever. He enters in the very moment you ask Him
to forgive your sin. It's what the words of the song Amazing Grace
convey:
"How precious did that grace appear, the hour I first believed..."
God's grace is given to us because He loves us. Jesus loves you and He
wants to forgive your sin and give you eternal life. Ask Him to forgive
you today, and enter in to His eternal Kingdom. He's gone ahead and made
a place for you, a custom place designed just for you, and He is return-
ing soon. The signs are foretold in the Bible and are unfurling before
our very eyes.
John 3:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+3&version=KJV
Jesus prepares a place for you in advance:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+14&version=KJV
Jesus loves you. I love you. I teach you about Him, and He teaches
you the truth. Read the Bible and learn the truth God gave mankind to
protect him from the enemy, to save him from sin. He did this for you,
directly and personally.
--
Rick C. Hodgin
Man fell in the garden of Eden, and sin entered into this world and the
world we live in today is the result. Everywhere wars, hate, death, and
destruction, people looking out only for themselves and their personal
interests, and when they do charity it's to say, "Hey look! I do charity."
Jesus Christ came into this world to save man from sin. He teaches a new
way to be. That new way is the way He intended for us before sin entered
in and destroyed everything. He restores that which was lost: our future,
our eternal relationship with Him.
God is spirit. He is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. His Son was flesh,
just like us. He came here to live under our laws and save us before God.
He completed His work at the cross after a ~3.5 year ministry, where He
was crucified and died in the flesh with our sin charged to Him. He was
innocent and had no sin of His own, and God allowed Him to receive the
sin of all who would put their faith and trust in Him, so that their sin
could be transferred (literally) from them to Him. Jesus died on the
cross, and went before God to pay the price of that sin. It was a heavy
price and it bruised God, it crushed Jesus. And on the third day, God
raised Him back to life and gave Him all authority in Heaven and on Earth.
What Jesus does for us when we come to Him and ask Him to forgive our sin,
is to restore us to eternal life. We are still here in this world for a
time, but our internal nature completely changes. We receive a new spirit
nature (John 3), and are guided from that day forward by His Holy Spirit.
Our flesh nature (sinful) is still here, and we can listen to that input,
and we can still do sinful things, but God's Holy Spirit is also there,
and our new spirit nature is also there, and everyone who is born of God
will not continue in sin for very long. God comes for us to lead us out
of sin, to even take us by the hand and drag us out of sin.
-----
Jesus didn't come to the Earth to save righteous people. He came to save
sinners.
Are you a sinner? Have you:
Ever stolen anything? Ever?
Used the Lord's name as a cuss word?
Lusted after someone who was not your spouse?
Told a lie? Ever?
Coveted after your neighbor's possessions? Ever?
All of us are guilty of these sins and more. Jesus knows this, which is
why He came here to save us. He does what we cannot do: He makes us
clean and shiny and innocent and new despite our filth and guilt in sin.
-----
You need to Jesus to forgive your sin. Ask Him to forgive you and begin
your new life with Him forever. He enters in the very moment you ask Him
to forgive your sin. It's what the words of the song Amazing Grace
convey:
"How precious did that grace appear, the hour I first believed..."
God's grace is given to us because He loves us. Jesus loves you and He
wants to forgive your sin and give you eternal life. Ask Him to forgive
you today, and enter in to His eternal Kingdom. He's gone ahead and made
a place for you, a custom place designed just for you, and He is return-
ing soon. The signs are foretold in the Bible and are unfurling before
our very eyes.
John 3:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+3&version=KJV
Jesus prepares a place for you in advance:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+14&version=KJV
Jesus loves you. I love you. I teach you about Him, and He teaches
you the truth. Read the Bible and learn the truth God gave mankind to
protect him from the enemy, to save him from sin. He did this for you,
directly and personally.
--
Rick C. Hodgin
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