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Opensource your abandonware [2010] (pulkomandy.tk)

submitted 4 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) (1 children)

From the comments:

Boomers don't like to share. In my experience.

Generally sums up the issue, except it's not just "boomers." It's like a lot of developers want to be the king of their barren kingdom, not adding anything new to this software that is also not for sale, or updated anymore, becoming increasingly more difficult to use on modern operating systems. "I made this, I am its master, I get control of this dead piece of software."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 years ago

It really pisses me off too. If the software is just going to sit there without any caretaking at least open source it with a permissive license. It does the dev no good anymore.