Re: Orphaned software and legal recourse

["J. R. Fox" jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxx]

Bill Troop wrote:

>> Hey, here's a thought. Why don't we all get together and
>> accquire the rights and turn Xywrite into an open-source
>> product. I would love to see a few things "fixed"...32-bit
>> and long file-name handling!
>
> How do we know Nota Bene hasn't already bought the rights?
> Anne ? ... ?
>
> Or how do we know they haven't reverted to Dave. Dave ? ... ?
>
> or to somebody else? ... ?

Good points. And even if you got past those, who's going to do
the coding ? Dave is now with NB. Someone like Carl or Robert
would have to be 1) Interested, 2) Available, & 3) World-class
Assembler programmers.  That's asking a lot.

Jordan