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   From: joelcrump@gmail.com   
      
   Steve Hayes  wrote:   
   >On Thu, 3 Oct 2024 09:58:04 -0400, CrudeSausage    
   >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 was pretty complete source code to Win2000 that leaked to the   
   Internet.  If I were M$, I wouldn't want it to be public domain, even   
   at 20+ years old.  It's still the foundation of Win11Copilot, today.   
      
   --   
   Joel W. Crump   
      
   Amendment XIV   
   Section 1.   
      
   [...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall   
   abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the   
   United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of   
   life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;   
   nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal   
   protection of the laws.   
      
   Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent.  States are   
   liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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