Help with a old online program

xSamuraix1x · 15 Sep 2020 at 21:09

Hi,

Just wondering something, sorry if this matter is not in the right area, but I can not find a answer anywhere else online.

An old program I used to use quite a few years ago now was scrapped in 2009-10 called Userplane, it was a chatroom service.

AOL bought it in 2007 - 2008 ish but it still failed.

The question I would love to know is, once an idea is scrapped by a company, can I then buy that program for a lot less money?

Deleted member 77746 · 15 Sep 2020 at 22:27

That ain’t going to happen. That application connected to APIs to work. It will never ever work now even if you did find it.

Wouldn’t even be worth buying even if you could. You would have to find developers to fix the problems and to connect it to new APIs.

xSamuraix1x · 15 Sep 2020 at 22:34

Yeah I guess your right. But say, if I developed a new version of it without any of the old problems it had, could I still be liable to action taken against me? As even though it no longer works a company (AOL) is still the owner of it.

I'm seriously thinking of doing 3 ideas, if I can pull them off, we'll have a few old favourites back again

Deleted member 77746 · 15 Sep 2020 at 22:36

If it connects to APIs and it works under a different name you won’t have any legal problems.

I wouldn’t even buy it, if you are a dev or know devs then that’s cool.

Did you never use IRC? That’s making a come back as there’s brand new guis available that’s cross platform.

xSamuraix1x · 15 Sep 2020 at 22:49

Nah, just a enthusiast of past software. I think the software that we have now, a lot is good, but has no feeling behind it.
Facebook, eBay, Myspace and a lot of others now, rubbish!

I may have to hire a web developer though to work things out.

I still have a PC with windows XP on it, love surfing on it still

and the old programs for it.

I do remember IRC, was good.

Would be cool if Microsoft would do a modern take on XP, I think it would be a massive seller.

Deleted member 77746 · 15 Sep 2020 at 22:59

Microsoft would never do that no chance.

The problem with that software is it connected to many platforms. Not sure people want that right now, a lot of people are sick of multi platforms.

There’s a service come out in 2018 to revive msn messenger as well. They found the server documentation and reversed engineered a new server. It’s live now. Called escargot msn. It’s msn messenger front end with a new server in place. Check it out.