Smith, Todd wrote:
Hello Wayne,
I know that abandonware advocates feel they are preserving end-of-life
products in sometimes a gray-market fashion. Some abandonware ware products
have been officially released as open-source; Borland's Interbase is the
example that comes to mind.
Yes, I recently bumped into that project. It has a different name now,
but I forget it. More interestingly to me was the equally recent
discovery that the database engine behind SAP is now open source. This
makes it much like Mozilla in that SAP pays a lot of engineers to work
on the product full time. www.sapdb.org
Anything that encourages companies or individual programmers to release any
software into open-source is a good thing, IMHO.
Concur.
