Windows XP's adventures in the afterlife shows copyright's copywrongs
On April 8, 2014, Emmanuel III Delly, the Primate Emeritus of Babylon of the Chaldeans and erstwhile Primate of the Chaldean Catholic Church, departed this life, in the full expectation of an eternal life to come. On the same day, another entity entrenched in the lives of millions also passed away as Microsoft declared Windows XP to be EOL – end of life. This being technology rather than theology, the afterlife kicked in straight away.
Take Windows XP. Since EOL, a variety of its validation and authentication services have been modified, peeled away or replaced to bypass Microsoft's own services. Now, more than 20 years after it was launched, the, meaning anyone can install an entirely functional XP instance with no modifications. Nearly a decade of official deadness has left the OS easier to use than the day Microsoft declared the bucket kicked.
The problem is copyright. Legally, no piece of software ever written has fallen out of copyright's default duration of roughly a hundred years, depending on justification. The software industry can be said to have started in 1957 with the first release of FORTRAN, meaning we've still got around 30 years on the clock. Reeeediculous.
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