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Larry Kilgallen wrote:
> Personally, I prefer the traditional economic model for software

My company is in the middle of trying to purchase the source code
for an application we use heavily. The application uses a GUI library
from a vendor who is no longer in business, and the company which owns
the application doesn't have the source for the GUI library. We are
trying to find out who does own the library - we think it's some
compnay in Brazil, but we haven't been able to contact them yet.

Not having the source for this application has cost us man years of
wasted effort, and now it looks like the "traditional economic model
for software" may doom our attempts to get the source altogether.