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European petition to preserve video games (eci.ec.europa.eu)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

How do you leave it in a "functionable state"? Drivers disappear, hardware changes, libraries get updated, os' update or die off, etc. You'd have to expose the source code to the public at that point and if I was a developer I'd want nothing to do with that market then.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

It's just about not intentionally breaking stuff.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I can still run Blade Runner which came out in 1997 using Wine, things don't die off that easily when they are not broken on purpose.

[–] leftzero 3 points 8 months ago

You'd have to expose the source code to the public

Good.

I'd want nothing to do with that market then

With that attitude, also good.