I have a number of old applications which I'm unlikely to do any further work on but could be quite useful to others (two examples being a sudoku generator/solver and an easy-to-use assembler/graphical-emulator tool for a fictitious CPU). Does anyone have any ideas on what I should do with them? I've thought of the obvious "starting a ...
Is it actually legal to download proprietary programs available from "abandonware" websites such as http://www.abandonia.com? Furthermore, If decide to decompile a program obtained from such a website, with a tool such as Boomerang, would I be able to make my own modifications and distribute it under a free/Open Source license? ...
A few years before I was employed at our organization, it demoed a useful but specialized Java application (library plus GUI) to our peers and to a few conferences. We had several requests for copies, and one of my projects when I joined the organization was to release it the code as an open source project. My role was project manager (...
Here's the scenario: A popular open source project is used/loved by many but has become stale due to the fact that the last drop came out nearly a year ago. Many bugs/feature requests/fixes have been logged in the interim and everyone is getting by via downloading the trunk and building custom/private builds with the changes incorporat...