Speaking of abandonware, all the Nintendo games for the original 8 bit system fit that description now. Should anyone distribute an emulator to run the old games on PC's? Should anyone distribute instructions on how to get a rom image of an old game so a person can play it on his/her PC? Would it be wrong for someone to set up an ftp site where you can download old 8 bit Nintendo games and play them on your PC?
How about games made for the Tandy Color Computer 3 by Diecom Products? That company is now defunct and has been for a very long time. You can download disk images of Guantlet II. Is that really illegal? MS-DOS and Windows 3.x are clearly abandonware. If I want to use this abandonware, am I suddenly breaking the law? I think there is a huge difference between using abandonware verses trying to profit from it. Hopefully if you want to sell software, you are smart enough to clean room create you own code and secure your rights to it. Aitor, you think piracy is a black and white issue. It is not. Busting Grandma for downloading a commercial song she bought a CD of at the local store is a travesty. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
