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Title: Abandoned apps that were legally made freeware
Post by: madcrow on 2011.01.10, 21:08:15
I'm trying to think of a list of abandoned OS/2 apps that were actually made freeware. So far, I can only think of BlueCAD, TrueSpectra Photo>Graphics and Dadaware Embellish. Can anybody think of any others?
Title: Re: Abandoned apps that were legally made freeware
Post by: craigm on 2011.01.11, 02:58:43
I have been doing a lot of research on that for my new site...I emailed you!
Title: Re: Abandoned apps that were legally made freeware
Post by: Ben on 2011.01.11, 03:11:30
NFTP was made public.

It's an FTP client
Title: Re: Abandoned apps that were legally made freeware
Post by: IBManners on 2011.01.11, 05:19:43
SNAP Graphics for OS/2 v3.1.8
Title: Re: Abandoned apps that were legally made freeware
Post by: madcrow on 2011.01.11, 05:26:30
Quote from: craigm on 2011.01.11, 02:58:43
I have been doing a lot of research on that for my new site...I emailed you!
I tried to reply, but your domain's mailserver says your email address doesn't exist...
Title: Re: Abandoned apps that were legally made freeware
Post by: Fahrvenugen on 2011.01.12, 18:28:17
PostRoadMailer (for a long time my favourite email app for OS/2)

Then (even though its Java) jStreetMailer (AKA Polarbar Mailer)

For a while Hacksaw was free, I'm not sure if that was meant as a permanent thing or just an offer at the time.

Title: Re: Abandoned apps that were legally made freeware
Post by: craigm on 2011.01.13, 00:07:10
Sorry about that...I had an old email...its updated now.
Title: Re: Abandoned apps that were legally made freeware
Post by: DougB on 2011.01.14, 04:19:51
Tonigy is now freeware. http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/apps/mmedia/cd/tonigy17.wpi (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/apps/mmedia/cd/tonigy17.wpi)

QuoteHow to register Tonigy?

Registration is free!

Use the free key:

hLfSfk+D3DErvn2r98eaHEyyFu1UOkH50RuYyPeEmJCJ
dLyyepvMVY3Z6/4ks9tP9V+YJq0hoX8U+X/yE518NA==

The key is official. It can be used for non-commercial purposes with no limitation.

PMFax (AKA PrimaFax, and FAXworks), but I am not sure where they can be downloaded From the announcement:

QuotePrimaFax Pro for Windows (download)
   Key: 10-00054-273-937-727-579-251

PrimaFax Pro for Linux (download)
   Key: 10-00042-185-182-616-225-873

PMFax Pro for OS/2 (download)
   Key: 10-00040-974-912-151-306-952
Title: Re: Abandoned apps that were legally made freeware
Post by: IBManners on 2011.01.14, 06:21:43
QuotePMFax (AKA PrimaFax, and FAXworks), but I am not sure where they can be downloaded

http://www.os2site.com/sw/comm/fax/index.html (http://www.os2site.com/sw/comm/fax/index.html)

YMMV

Cheers
Title: Re: Abandoned apps that were legally made freeware
Post by: madcrow on 2011.01.14, 19:17:52
I thought of a couple more myself: 4OS2 and OpenWatcom both started out as commercial software before going open source.
Title: Re: Abandoned apps that were legally made freeware
Post by: CDRWSel on 2011.01.14, 19:39:09
I have CUADRAW / CUAPAINT  IBM (c) from 1991
I do not know if it is always under licence agreement

Title: Re: Abandoned apps that were legally made freeware
Post by: miturbide on 2011.01.25, 22:11:59
NFTP is now open source under the MIT license.
Title: Re: Abandoned apps that were legally made freeware
Post by: WarpWorld on 2012.03.19, 17:23:37
Did anyone hear for this US law act? - http://sciencefictionobserver.blogspot.com/2006/12/usa-legalizes-abandonware.html
That's cool
Title: Re: Abandoned apps that were legally made freeware
Post by: miturbide on 2012.03.19, 23:52:58
Hi WarpWorld

I haven't hear of that law, and the link that it reference seems to be broken.

As far as "the all mighty" wikipedia says ;)
"Therefore, sharing of such software is usually considered copyright infringement, though in practice copyright holders rarely enforce their abandonware copyrights."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abandonware (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abandonware)

I wish this could change on the future.
Title: Re: Abandoned apps that were legally made freeware
Post by: WarpWorld on 2012.05.30, 23:18:46
Microsoft Word for DOS became freeware. IBM PC DOS 2000 Chinese edition was available on IBM server for free download for unknown reason long time, but from unknown reason again they (IBM) removed it, so license of that system is big symbol ? ,who downloaded it in that time,have free legal version,others not  ;D
Also, I found very interesting brazilian word processor from 80's and it works fine and with .doc files.
Title: Re: Abandoned apps that were legally made freeware
Post by: WarpWorld on 2012.08.08, 22:06:06
I don't know status of pre-released version of Quick Time for OS/2.As I know that never became stable and commercial program, isn't it? I saw on hobbes and maybe os2site it for download? Yeah,yeah I know that's abandonware but that's not cathegory it can only be easiest freeware,shareware,commercial or free with source code.
Title: Re: Abandoned apps that were legally made freeware
Post by: miturbide on 2012.08.09, 00:28:47
..I think that was a Apple Quicktime beta that was never completed. But we also used to have QuickMotion, which has a series con CODECs to support some Apple formats. Quickmotion was open sourced on 2011 - http://www.os2world.com/content/view/20596/2/
Title: Re: Abandoned apps that were legally made freeware
Post by: WarpWorld on 2012.08.09, 00:58:04
Yes, I saw for Quickmotion.But as understand, and downloading and usage of Quciktime for /2 beta is close to legal.