Timeline for Word for software which has been killed or is no longer supported
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| Jun 16, 2014 at 14:50 | comment | added | Phil Perry | @jwenting, then it's not really "abandonware" so much as "released into the PD". Where I've usually seen "abandonware" is something where the author/owner has simply stopped showing up or doing anything with it. Many places have a license clause you agree to when you contribute add-ons, mods, plug-ins, etc. that if you can't be contacted for some length of time, ownership and copyright revert to the main project or repository. Not all do this, so it depends upon the particular license used. It's impolite to simply take a project without contact, and sometimes a copyright violation. | |
| Jun 16, 2014 at 14:38 | comment | added | jwenting | @PhilPerry and I do just that... "has been released to the public", an explicit act. Not "pirated so much it's lost all economic potential"... | |
| Jun 16, 2014 at 13:18 | comment | added | Phil Perry | @jwenting, I would be careful about conflating "abandonware" and "public domain". Just because a developer/maintainer/copyright holder appears to have walked away from a project does NOT mean they have relinquished all rights to it. They have to do that explicitly for it to go into the public domain. | |
| Jun 14, 2014 at 10:07 | comment | added | jwenting | @ThirdNews that'd be news to the millions who've actually had to maintain legacy code... | |
| Jun 13, 2014 at 18:21 | comment | added | Third News | @jwenting the links disagree with your learned opinion -as the millions who have read them | |
| Jun 13, 2014 at 14:33 | comment | added | jwenting | Ditto legacy code is NOT what is meant here. Legacy code is code that's old, usually nobody around any more who has experience with how it works, but is still part of existing systems so it has to be maintained. It's definitely NOT unmaintained, unsupported, code. It's just a maintenance PITA. | |
| Jun 13, 2014 at 14:31 | comment | added | jwenting | Abandonware has a very specific meaning, and it's NOT just end of support. It means the product has been released to the public, without support, and typically without the source, effectively releasing the product into the public domain, the creator abandoning all rights to it. | |
| Jun 13, 2014 at 13:59 | comment | added | Phil Perry | Then it's settled... the software has been zombified! | |
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| Jun 11, 2014 at 23:29 | comment | added | Third News | @MattGutting, despite buzzwords like 'software archaeology', data is never dead, programs are adapted,changed,open-sourced, copyright restricted...they are a true zombie | |
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| Jun 11, 2014 at 21:55 | comment | added | Matt Gutting | I don't think one generally refers to a software product as "flourishing". Not a bad answer but I don't think it relates to this particular field of endeavor. | |
| Jun 11, 2014 at 20:33 | history | answered | Third News | CC BY-SA 3.0 |