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Under US law, for works created by companies the term is a flat 95 years from publication, so MS-DOS 6.22 will become public domain on January 1 2090.

You and I will likely be dead.




Which is an atrocity. Depriving everyone of the ability to build on existing works until those works are ancient history is absurd and there is no way this is a good deal for society.




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