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1. satchmoz (satchmoz@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2017 10:39:12 EST satchmoz

   Apple sharing the source code of the #LisaOS under proprietary non-commercial terms irks me.

   What commercial applications are left in that code could possibly impact their bottom line? We're talking about code older than Classic Mac OS.

   I know it is remarkable in the sense that other people like Microsoft are clutching onto the code for Windows 1.0 still at this late hour in computer history.

   But it another sense it shows remarkable cowardice and lack of vision.

   1. satchmoz (satchmoz@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2017 10:49:40 EST satchmoz

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      I really think it behooves proprietary vendors to at a MINIMUM do a source code dump when they decide to sunset a product line/platform.

      And while it's nice if you can do it clean, and setup a foundation or donate it to Apache. It's not necessary.

      If you can't do those things just toss a tarball over the wall.

      If you don't own all the code. Toss the code you do have the rights too.