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Bring Back Rocket Race!!!
Posted by: Moifugley
Posted by: Furl Hawkens
I actually happen to agree with this. I think that if a company discontinues support for a product it should then fall into the public domain.
Look at how many good games and other programs are now useless because the company dropped support, servers, patches, etc, or simply went bankrupt or got bought out.
I have an entire stack of games, for both PC and 360, that I will never play online again because the company decided to quit support.
Even modern games can be useless. Go out and buy a brand new copy of some games, such as a number of EA games like Madden 09, and you can no longer play it online.
The case will say you can, but when you get home with your 2009 game you will find that even though its still fairly new (IE PS3, 360, and PC), there are no servers because EA shut them down.
If a company will no longer support a game they have NO right to continue to profit from it. I can buy Halo PC and H2V new at walmart, but neither one are ever going to be supported or patched again. If the company no longer wishes to support the product then wtf are we paying them for?...
They either need to open source, or take it off the market.HELL YEAH! this needs to be a mandatory International law.
Well technically, Halo 2 Vista isn't out of support yet. It still falls under Microsoft's Mainstream Lifecycle Support Policy. So it shouldn't be open source yet under your ideas. The problem with them making their software open source is that not every component of that software is no longer updated. Windows Product Activation will never be open source and that's a huge part of Halo 2 Vista. Windows XP will never be open source because its WINNT codebase will also be made open source and that could cause potential security problems with future WINNT-based operating systems.
I think most Microsoft products are fine where they are. But I guess I do agree with you for certain products. I would like to see Win9x os's be made open source. I still enjoy using some Win9x OS's sometimes and I think a lot of people out there could make even newer and better versions of Win9x systems.
Also, there are some Apple products that go almost, if not over a year, without being updated. Yet they are still supported by Apple. Also, Halo 2 Vista has Games For Windows Live integrated into which is also another proprietary system that's constantly being updated. You can't make Halo 2 Vista open source without making GFWL open source (which will never happen even under your ideas).