19 Mar
2007
19 Mar
'07
5:11 a.m.
Teo Zenios wrote:
The issue is what do you do if you want Adobe Photoshop 1.0 when the
copyright holder does not sell or support that version and the latest will
not run on a Mac with 512k RAM.
You can wait 10 years and maybe it will show up on ebay, or you can pirate
it.
What is Adobe doesn't even have the original Photoshop 1.0 code anymore, is
it ok to let it fade away because of bitrot?
No, but that's not what Hex Star was talking about. He was talking
about creating a website in Russia to get around software publishers who
still want to enforce their copyright.
Peace... Sridhar
Hex Star
wrote:
> The Russian comment is that if someone here does speak russian it would
be
possible
to get Russian hosting in Russia which would prevent us from
having
to deal with US copyright issues and thus be able to upload whatever we
want
That implies a systemic desire to avoid valid copyright. That doesn't
seem like a good idea. If you don't respect others' copyright, you
shouldn't expect anyone to respect yours.
I write open-source software. The last thing I would want is for people
to be ignoring my licenses wholesale.
Peace... Sridhar