Ms-DOS

[CYBER PATRIOT]

Hi all,

Allthough I am a respecter of the rule of law in the world and that copyrights are a valid and good protection for artists and inventors. There are other laws that help the consumer and the people in general. All copyrighted material has a time of expiration on the copy [usualy 7 years] and thus fall into the "public domain" for all to use freely. The purpose of this law was to allow inventions to be fairly exploited by their creators and then further improved upon by others. unfortunatly our patent and copyright law code is huge and cumbersome these days and takes specialists to weild it.

One could argue that allthough microsoft has renewed their copyrights on their software, that its time is expired and has moved into the public domain. This is further supported by the fact that they refuse to support the prouduct that was purchased by the millions of people over the years, this lack of "support" can be seen as an abandonment of any right to the "invention" just like any other neglected invention.

this of course must be hashed out in our justice [HA!] system and in the meantime
we must go to the feet of OverLord Gates and plead for his scraps. ........ or .......
we could just leave it lying arround on our harddrives where it might be picked up on a peer to peer network ..... history is perserved, people are helped, the greedy monster twarted, and no one is harmed just a thought to think on.

Note if you store floppy disks with good 'ol software for about ten or twenty years, wrap it in foil and put it in a metal box or stray electrons and other sub-atomic particles will mess them up. Alas my poor win 3.1 disks. not diskfix of scandisk could save them. I will check my sources for any othe oldies I find, till then

[CYBER PATRIOT]

Hi all,

Allthough I am a respecter of the rule of law in the world and agree that copyrights are a valid and good protection for artists and inventors. There are other laws that help the consumer and the people in general.
All copyrighted material has a time of expiration on the copy [usualy 7 years] and thus fall into the "public domain" for all to use freely. The purpose of this law was to allow inventions to be fairly exploited by their creators and then further improved upon by others. unfortunatly our patent and copyright law code is huge and cumbersome these days and takes specialists to weild it.

One could argue that allthough microsoft has renewed their copyrights on their software, that its time is expired and has moved into the public domain. This is further supported by the fact that they refuse to support the prouduct that was purchased by the millions of people over the years, this lack of "support" can be seen as an abandonment of any right to the "invention" just like any other neglected invention.

this of course must be hashed out in our justice [HA!] system and in the meantime
we must go to the feet of OverLord Gates and plead for his scraps. ........ or .......
we could just leave it lying arround on our harddrives where it might be picked up on a peer to peer network ..... history is perserved, people are helped, the greedy monster twarted, and no one is harmed just a thought to think on.

Note if you store floppy disks with good 'ol software for about ten or twenty years, wrap it in foil and put it in a metal box or stray electrons and other sub-atomic particles will mess them up. Alas my poor win 3.1 disks. not diskfix of scandisk could save them. I will check my sources for any othe oldies I find, till then[/QUOTE]