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   From: crude@sausa.ge   
      
   On 2024-10-03 10:46 p.m., 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.   
      
   There is a compatibility mode in the new versions of Windows which do   
   indeed allow you to run old software. It was demonstrated that you can   
   fairly easily run software made even for Windows 3.0. Please produce a   
   few examples of old programs which don't run _at all_ in Windows 11, and   
   I'm sure that someone with some time on their hands will not only   
   install and run the software, but explain how to get it working.   
      
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