[Rant] LeHah's Abandonware Emporium

Originally Posted by LeHah

"Abandonware" has absolutely no special legal status. It's a term jerks made up so they could feel better about themselves for stealing.

Isn't Abandonware supposed to be software which at one point wasn't freeware, but since has been released by the developer as Freeware? I mean, yeah, there's lots of stuff that's called Abandonware that's still copyrighted and just called OLD GAMES YOU CAN DOWNLOAD FOR FREE WITH NOBODY CARING, but there are actual titles that, while at one point cost money, are now public domain.

How ya doing, buddy?

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I think the difference between "Abandonware" and "Public Domain" is the same difference between the words bear and bare - they're vaugely similar but mean totally different things if you bother to use your brain.

Or, you know, one could be a subset of the other.

There's nowhere I can't reach.