A home for orphan code?
First posted on 12 December 1998. Last updated on 28 June 2010.
When a software company goes out of business or decides not to release a finished product, what should happen to the code it has written? In the gaming industry, these codes are referred to as "orphan" codes. The word "orphan" refers to 2 types of software. The first and more common type of orphan software is a commercial game title which, after being sold for a time, is withdrawn from the…
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