Janina Sajka <janina at rednote.net> wrote: > Not lost. Problem is that it has a lot of owners, i.e. > people/corporations who own a piece of it. Getting a rebuild, especially > with enhancements, would take a firm of lawyers just to get the project > started. There might be lawyers associated with the free/open-source software community who would work on this if it could lead to the release of the code. However, any one of the aforementioned people/corporations could just say "no", or demand royalties. This is one way in which proprietary software dies, unfortunately.
