[Info-vax] OpenVMS Hobbyist Notification

[Dave Froble]

On 3/8/2020 1:14 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
>> In article <r42p8k$9s5$1 at panix2.panix.com>, kludge at panix.com (Scott
>> Dorsey) writes:
>>
>>> Yes.  This is what "abandonware" means.  It's software that is no longer
>>> available from the manufacturer but which is legally constrained from
>>> open distribution.
>>
>> I had the impression that some here thought that it meant that if it is
>> no longer available from the manufacturer, then one somehow has the
>> right to do what one wants with it.
>
> It's true that some people do feel that way, believing that if there is
> nobody to enforce the law that it is okay not to obey it.
>
> But that is a moral issue, and not relevant to the definition of what it is.
> --scott
>

Just trying to understand.  (Right)  :-)

So if I throw something (that I own and don't allow anyone else to have 
it) in the trash, and do not give anyone else permission to use it, and 
someone finds it and uses it, what is that?

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