Re: Registration sucks again

David Erbas-White wrote:

My two cents...

I'd love to see it made common practice that at some point after a
product is no longer supported, that the source code for the 'old'
product be made open source. The license could prevent direct
competition with the product, but there are far to many cases of
'forcing' upgrades, or 'bad' upgrades, or changes in the product that
make it untenable to use.

This either forces the manufacturer to maintain the product, or to
provide another mechanism for the customer to provide their own
support.

Of course, I know that kind of stuff will never happen, but one can
dream...

I wonder how many business owners in this group would be willing to do
this.

--
Regards,
Bruce McGee
Glooscap Software
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