Subj : RE: QModem Pro
To   : Mark Lewis
From : Matthew Munson
Date : Thu Sep 05 2019 22:15:48

On 9/5/2019 2:07 PM, Mark Lewis wrote to Matthew Munson:

-> 
->  On 2019 Sep 05 00:11:02, you wrote to All:
-> 
->  MM> I wonder if I am able to contact the rightsholders to the program, do 
you
->  MM> think a big amount of money will be needed to buy the rights to the
-> program
->  MM> if they still have the source code to it?
-> 
-> that depends on who has the code and what they can and are willing to do 
with
-> it... they might just give it to you if you're going to open source it and 
keep
-> it viable in today's world... open sourcing it could be a big job, though, 
if
-> commercial closed libraries are/were used... those routines would need to be
-> replaced...
Sadly the rightsholders refused to communicate back, but i guess they like 
their assets 
not being used or sold for money for another 20 years where the value goes down 
even 
further.  
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