My friend and I had the RNG pattern memorized for the old Zelda game, we were rarely short of Rupees, as we played the shell game and always won. And, Yes, I do realize this shows that I had way too much time on my hands when I was younger.
I don't trust the goverment for anything, but any company that does rent the software would do well by its customers to, if they are going to fold sometime soon, write a patch or some such that would break the code lock on their software, that or sell the rights off to another company. If they are out of buisness I don't think they should care to much if anybody uses their software. Although if they fail it means that their software was not all that popular in the first place, making the likelyhood that massive amounts of people will want to pirate their stuff highly unlikely, unless they charge insane fees for their software.
A better question might be what happens to the patented technology that the company developed when it folds? If the rights to the technology are in Limbo some companies might be in real trouble as their would be noone that could legally provide a similiar service to take the place of the old one. That, to put it mildly, is bad.
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My friend and I had the RNG pattern memorized for the old Zelda game, we were rarely short of Rupees, as we played the shell game and always won. And, Yes, I do realize this shows that I had way too much time on my hands when I was younger.
I don't trust the goverment for anything, but any company that does rent the software would do well by its customers to, if they are going to fold sometime soon, write a patch or some such that would break the code lock on their software, that or sell the rights off to another company. If they are out of buisness I don't think they should care to much if anybody uses their software. Although if they fail it means that their software was not all that popular in the first place, making the likelyhood that massive amounts of people will want to pirate their stuff highly unlikely, unless they charge insane fees for their software. A better question might be what happens to the patented technology that the company developed when it folds? If the rights to the technology are in Limbo some companies might be in real trouble as their would be noone that could legally provide a similiar service to take the place of the old one. That, to put it mildly, is bad.