Adobe Flash is dead? I mean Adobe isn't selling it as product? If so, why they didn't open source the Flash player part?
I wish there were a law to ensure that if you're not selling a software anymore, you have to leave it in public domain.
I wish there were a law to ensure that if you're not selling a software anymore, you have to leave it in public domain.
At least all the relevant specifications are freely available from Adobe themselves.
> I wish there were a law to ensure that if you're not selling a software anymore, you have to leave it in public domain.
Shortening the copyright to something sensible like 5 years would've been nice too. Or better yet, require an exponentially increasing tax every year for copyright to be maintained.
Even juste going down to 20 years like it used to be before IP portfolio owners lobbied to extend it would be a massive improvement already.
A law change could fix this. Ie. A new antique software preservation law could enable any software be opensourced, yet prevent any lawsuits relating to any actions taken under that law. The law could give extra incentives too, for example requiring that any software ever sold commercially either be archived in perpetuity, or opensourced. Legally archiving something forever is expensive, so many will opt to opensource it.
The code quality would be an embarrassment. So many exploits yet to be discovered.