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Without APIs. - death of proprietary software

Authored by: artp on Friday, May 31 2013 @ 07:16 AM EDT

Or for the interaction of Free Software with proprietary
software or any undocumented software.

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Userfriendly on WGA server outage:
When you're chained to an oar you don't think you should go down when the galley
sinks ?

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Death of proprietary software? Much improvement needed.

Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 31 2013 @ 10:55 AM EDT

I have nothing against the idea of proprietary software as such. It's what
happens down the line that annoys me.

I have in my possession an excellent and easy to use scanner applications
package which will only run on W 3.1 or W 95/98. The producer was bought out by
one of the big boys and the package was discontinued. I have another essential
package which will not work with a modern flat screen and there is no
replacement. I have other 'redundant' but very good applications that are
similarly affected. I keep an old multiple boot self-built machine for their
use. There is nothing open source because of the patent infections.

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