Microsoft, here's an easy step in good faith you could make: Release Freelancer under a permissive free license. Preferably with source code. The title is de-facto dead, but with a small and...
Microsoft, here's an easy step in good faith you could make:
Release Freelancer under a permissive free license. Preferably with source code.
The title is de-facto dead, but with a small and passionate community. It's not available for sale anywhere. You have nothing to lose except possibly putting some substance behind your PR.
If Microsoft won't take steps to preserve titles that they own and don't even need emulation, I certainly can't trust that they have any genuine interest in preservation.
Microsoft, here's an easy step in good faith you could make:
Release Freelancer under a permissive free license. Preferably with source code.
The title is de-facto dead, but with a small and passionate community. It's not available for sale anywhere. You have nothing to lose except possibly putting some substance behind your PR.
If Microsoft won't take steps to preserve titles that they own and don't even need emulation, I certainly can't trust that they have any genuine interest in preservation.