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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Forcing companies to release source code once they go bankrupt or abandon a project can only have good results. Yes, it eats into profits of successors, but something being profitable does not mean it's good. If people would rather use decades old code rather than something new, what does that say about the quality of the new code? This would force companies to continuously improve, rather than profit from stagnation. And it would prune away the parts of the economy that contribute nothing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

This comment is based on the assumption that the company manufacturing the lab equipment is enjoying unreasonable profits, which is not necessarily the case.

You can't force companies to support software. They will just attach an impractical though reasonable price tag to continued support. "Sure we can support that microscope, it will cost you 2x the price of our new model".

This would force companies to continuously improve

On the contrary, there's no money to invest in development of newer models if no one will buy them.