[rbanffy]

> I can walk through the GitHub or SourceForge cemetery to find many dead bodies that will likely never be resurrected.

That's not the point - they won't be resurrected because nobody uses them anymore.

> BTW, for many companies, you can often get the code in escrow.

On one side you have a mechanism (open-source) that allows anyone interested to pool resources to maintain software after its previous maintainers abandon it. On the other, you see a mechanism under which you can, sometimes, get code that may or may not have been carefully maintained and may or may not have horrendous bugs you'll only become aware when you actually execute the contractual clause that allows you to get the source.

So, can we get the source for Windows 95? It's discontinued, right?