user: keatxu , Oct 18 abandonware should be public domain. force companies to actively support and provide products if they don't wanna lose the rights to them user: omikronsoul, Oct 23 Game companies hate emulaton,but one of them seem to understand that 1ot of us would just buy ROMs from them directly if we could, | don't want a fifth remake of Final Fantasy IV, I want to pay 5 bucks for the 3MB file you already made bank with thirty years ago. Nobody who wants to play something for the purpose of retro gaming is going to consider a $40 remake as the altemative option, and we're certainly not going to let the orginal dissaepper. They're crying about opportunity cost for a product they're not even selling. user: justletmeremember, 23 h ago op i know you're probably talking about like, video games, et but this is also critical for research science - my lab as so much abandonware, either because the company's out of business, or the company decided to not maintain it, and it's a fucking nightmare. we have two windows 95 computers that are *critical* for performing/experiments data analysis because the software needed is abandonware. on of the main roles for a guy in my lab is to maintain these little dinosaurs because if they go out we lose access ~20 years of raw data for research. (continued next image)

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