Voxin was: Re: Switching to Linux

Jason White jason at jasonjgw.net
Fri May 10 21:35:24 EDT 2013


Janina Sajka <janina at rednote.net> wrote:
> Not lost. Problem is that it has a lot of owners, i.e.
> people/corporations who own a piece of it. Getting a rebuild, especially
> with enhancements, would take a firm of lawyers just to get the project
> started.

There might be lawyers associated with the free/open-source software community
who would work on this if it could lead to the release of the code. However,
any one of the aforementioned people/corporations could just say "no", or
demand royalties.

This is one way in which proprietary software dies, unfortunately.



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