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  • PCBoard abandonware

    From Trifle Menot@triflemenot@beewyz.com to alt.bbs.pcboard,alt.bbs on Sat Mar 12 18:20:54 2011
    From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.pcboard


    Wikipedia says:

    [ The term "abandonware" is broad, and encompasses many types of old
    software: e.g., Commercial software owned by a company no longer in
    business.

    Abandonware proponents argue that distributing software for which there
    is no one to defend the copyright is morally acceptable, even where
    unsupported by current law.

    Old copyrights are usually left undefended. This ... results from a
    corporate copyright holder going out of business without explicitly transferring ownership ... an example of this is Digital Research's
    original PL/I compiler for DOS. The rights to the software can not be
    bought by another company, therefore there is no possibility for a
    lawsuit. ]

    Seems like the PCBoard copyrights exist in the same void.

    From SOURCE\MAIN\PCBOARD.C:

    /*!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*/
    /* The source code in this module is proprietary software belonging to */
    /* Clark Development Company and is part of the PCBoard source code library. */
    /* You are granted the right to use this source code for the building of any */
    /* of the PCBoard products you have licensed. Any other usage is forbidden */
    /* without prior written consent from Clark Development Company, Inc. */
    /* */
    /* Be sure to read the source code license agreement before utilizing any */
    /* of the source code found herein. */
    /* */
    /* Copyright (C) 1996 Clark Development Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. */
    /*!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*/

    Anyone care to defend the PCBoard copyrights?


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  • From MRoblivious1bmf@mroblivious1bmf@eob-bbs.com.remove-n2t-this to Trifle Menot on Sat Mar 12 13:09:44 2011
    From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.pcboard

    To: Trifle Menot
    .,: This is something about PCBoard abandonware,
    Trifle Menot said it to alt.bbs.pcboard,alt.bbs on Sat Mar 12 2011 06:20 pm --����������������������-����---���������������---���������--��������
    Anyone care to defend the PCBoard copyrights?


    why even post this?
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  • From Corey@vinyldoctorlv@gmail.com to alt.bbs.pcboard on Tue Mar 29 16:01:46 2011
    From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.pcboard

    On Mar 12, 12:09 pm, "MRoblivious1bmf" <mroblivious1...@eob- bbs.com.remove-n2t-this> wrote:
      To: Trifle Menot
    .,: This is something about PCBoard abandonware,
     Trifle Menot said it to alt.bbs.pcboard,alt.bbs on Sat Mar 12 2011 06:20 pm --дддддддддддддддддддддд-дддд---ддддддддддддддд---ддддддддд--дддддддд
    Anyone care to defend the PCBoard copyrights?

    why even post this?

    yeah really. what can they do if we use the code for our own uses?
    plus we can go and fix our own buggies now. praise to the one who made
    it compile. bow, bow, bow. scrap. and thank you.
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