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   From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 10/3/2024 10:46 PM, Steve Hayes wrote:   
   > On Thu, 3 Oct 2024 09:58:04 -0400, CrudeSausage    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 2024-10-03 12:40 a.m., Steve Hayes wrote:   
   >>> Perhaps a law should be enacted that any computer software that is "no   
   >>> longer supported" should be made open source.   
   >>   
   >> It happens a lot but there is no law pushing for that. Nevertheless,   
   >> what you mentioned above is true albeit most hypothetical. In most   
   >> cases, even obsolete formats can be read by the new suites because there   
   >> is a converter built into the software. I imagine this was a problem in   
   >> the 90s with the format of 80s software which suddenly disappeared, but   
   >> it no longer seems to be true. Still, I agree that formats should be   
   >> open-source.   
   >   
   > I don't know about Linux, but Windows 11 cannot run programs that are   
   > used to read or create older documents, and if you put earlier   
   > versions on a new computer Microsoft won't let you run them. Windows   
   > XP, the 32-bit version anyway, should be made open source.   
      
   Wasn't the source stolen ?  Article is from four years ago.   
      
   https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/25/21455655/microsoft-windows-xp   
   source-code-leak   
      
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