What do you use when you want to run some old games that won’t work under XP or newer?

There are virtual systems, like VMWare Player, but they typically don’t fully emulate old systems.

It’s ironic, that thanks to DOSBox, it’s now easier to run old DOS games on a modern system, than it is to run old Windows games.

And secondly, making previous windows-versions public domain would illustrate for everyone just how badly and hamfisted windows 98, say, was put together.

Hence you might actually state Google is the most prolific actual single entity creator around.

And it’s much the same for any other tech company. Create the world’s first iPod-predecessors without being apple and watch yourself sued into oblivion.

Create a new file packaging mechanism such as mp3 – get sued into oblivion.

Create ANY form of technology which as a side effect assists in information transmission – get sued into oblivion.

Hence any creative industry actually working with networks does indeed get stifled. And no wonder, when you need a dozen lawyers just to find out whether you are even allowed to research and create.

Plus, apparently it’s a pain to switch ip’s all the time just so it won’t show all the pro-copyright advocates seem to work out of the same marketing agency.

If there were a world-wide kill-switch for older versions of Windows and if they thought they could get away with using it, they would.

Besides, who knows what people could come up with if it were legal to distribute older versions of Windows and to tinker with them?