#Abandonware for windows software
If you can download official updates from official website or using original program, that means software is still supported (at least a little bi) and it should not be considered as abandonware.īecause a download function works doesn't mean it's actively supported either, only that the developers left the server structure intact enough to make it work. Also, I think Nintendo and Microsoft have asked us to take down stuff as well over the years, but nothing widespread or "stop distributing ALL of our stuff"-level C&D.īut by our standards, which we have made clear - XP is abandonware in all forms but SP3. I believe recently, we had the current AmigaOS copyright holders sent a takedown notice over one of the leaked AmigaOS 3.1 sources that has spread around. (but that's more off-topic than anything)Īnd we know these companies have their eyes on us. By making our stuff harder to access, we're making ourselves more palatable to those companies that know about us. All those really crazy FTP requirements that everyone moans and groans about? It's probably saved our keisters more so than anything else about this forum.
Andy has said that Microsoft and other corporations know we exist, and they've been content to let us be because we're very stringent about letting people access our repositories, and we're very serious about being historians and collectors, not pirates.
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