Help with a old online program

[xSamuraix1x]

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?

 

[xSamuraix1x]

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

 

[xSamuraix1x]

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.