Comment 531 for bug 1

Greetings,

Last night, I dreamed of a new law.

This new Software Development Lifecycle Law, related to any and all
software unsupported by the original vendor, manufacturer or developer
(OEM). This law would require that the source code escrow agents of these
supposedly obsolete and unsupported software products and systems either
demonstrate contract with an agent supporting this code system or end
their stewardship and disclose the source code in escrow.

In this dream, I was using Dbase and editing with Wordstar, as they were
now open source, ( I was thinking about switching to Edix :^).

In this dream Micro$oft suddenly was supporting all versions of its
software starting at MS DOS 3.0. All windows versions prior to Windows
2000 were supported under a contract with Computer Associates. While at a
ridiculous price, windows 2000 and onward were supported directly by
Micro$soft.

Warty Warthog under this law, was placed in the public domain...

Can anyone else think of the unintended consequences of this type of
Software Development Lifecycle Law (SDLCL)?

Thank you and...

Kindest Regards,

Paul Flint

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