tonyshowoff
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I honestly don't see that happening. Even though ICQ now is switching to essentially a sort of REST-based protocol, even if no OSCAR-based system were in use anywhere, the issue of copyright, patents, etc mean that code is often held on to like it's still integral to a company. In that sense you can imagine that there are still companies holding on to code written for VAX, and hell, even UNIVAC that they won't ever open, no matter what.
So in that spirit what happens most of the time is the code is just eventually lost, and never recovered. I do imagine there are copies of code for BOS (Basic OSCAR Service), Grog, Authorizer, and AOL's TIH, BERP, Nav, Chat, etc but they may be, I'm honestly concerned, eventually totally lost forever.
A lot of times, too, in my experience there is a degree of pure stupidity and technological ignorance amongst those who have the code, things like: "20 years ago this took hundreds of servers to run, you couldn't possibly do it now without hundreds of servers!" I saw this problem with people not wanting to open the sources for the late 90s social network bolt.com, I literally was told that because it required at least a half dozen NT4 servers to work, that in the year 2009, there'd be no way that I could do it with BSD, Linux, or Server 2008 (It was written in Java, among other things).
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