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by pjc50 4354 days ago
At least if the company doesn't exist they're not going to complain about it. Although whoever ended up with the IP in the liquidation sale might.

Running a live version of old software is often surprisingly hard, as it will depend on other old software or nonexistent systems. VMs make this a bit easier, but if it's a distributed or embedded system that doesn't work either.