Ok, got a question for you guys.
Hopefully, it is on-topic...
If you had a BASIC compiler for a long-dead computer, that you bought 20
years ago, and have no way of reaching the author or company (I have tried
for about the last 10 years)...
This is a company on U.S. Soil - would you release the software to your
fellow community?
It is the ONLY full compiler for BASIC on the target machine.
I know what the community thinks now - or at least the half that doesn't
care about copyrights... I've actually been accused of doing the community
a
"disservice" by not releasing the software much earlier... Gee, I paid for
it - they didn't...
I also know there has been a push to release such "dead" software from
copyright, but the progress has been slow and apparently, from what I've
heard, has been weakened and may not even cover such gems...
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