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On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 5:37 PM, <dan at geer.org> wrote:

> <polemic>
>
> Suppliers who walk away from their code bases must eventually become
> subject to the rule of law.
>
>   On Abandonment, IEEE
>

Agreed. Revising our laws to either provide strict product liability *or*
reversion of abandonned IP to the public would seem pragmatic. Somehow i
doubt those terms are built into the closed-text Trans Pacific Partnership
treaty that we're being asked to accept sight-unseen. ?

Alas they'd probably dodge liability by saying it was past its useful life
... however useful it is to us.



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