> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org > <mailto:jh...@freedos.org>> wrote: > > At least in the US, this is still an issue for proprietary > programs where the parent company may have gone out of business. > (Also referred to as "abandonware".) The copyrights are often > bought out as "intellectual property" and the new IP holder would > have control of that copyright. > > There is nothing wrong with these proprietary program if that is > what you prefer. And back in the day, I had my own licensed copies > of Wordperfect, Aseasyas, Doom, Procomm, QuickC, Borland C, and > other proprietary DOS programs. But these programs are non-free > and may not be redistributed (except Doom & Aseasyas, which may be > redistributed in their original, unmodified shareware zip files.) >
I've not kept up with Embarcadero's site since I switched to Linux, but at least in the days of CodeGear, there used to be a museum from which old versions of Borland software were downloadable - from memory, there was Turbo Pascal 1.0, 3.0 and 5.5, and Borland C++ 5.0. Brian. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
