Any hardware that's abandoned needs to be forced to release the source of any needed software - the latest version.
We'd need a range of available licences, as to prevent any bullshit "you're only allowed to read this source" license.
This is going to suck for Apple, but it's going to be great for people who pay for some expensive microscope that's not supported any more.
There's probably a lot of legal nonsense that may make this impossible in practice, but I'd love to see this happen.
So would I. Every election, the Pirate Party gets my vote. On technical issues, they are the only party that really understands what's going on.
Same thing for companies that run out of business. When you pay for something there's a (sometimes tacit) agreement that bugs will be fixed. At least this would allow companies/users to do that themselves when needed.
Any hardware that's abandoned needs to be forced to release the source of any needed software - the latest version.
We'd need a range of available licences, as to prevent any bullshit "you're only allowed to read this source" license.
This is going to suck for Apple, but it's going to be great for people who pay for some expensive microscope that's not supported any more.
There's probably a lot of legal nonsense that may make this impossible in practice, but I'd love to see this happen.
So would I. Every election, the Pirate Party gets my vote. On technical issues, they are the only party that really understands what's going on.
Same thing for companies that run out of business. When you pay for something there's a (sometimes tacit) agreement that bugs will be fixed. At least this would allow companies/users to do that themselves when needed.