<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">That’s an interesting theory that deserves to be tested.  Note that as volunteers, we can’t commit CHM to create exhibits (or to accept the donated software, for that matter (although in practice they are of course interested in a wide range of historic software). So you could offer to do the curation for a company, including, say, creating a public web site that they would publish. At CHM, you could offer to write a “From the Collection" post for the @CHM blog (<a href="http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/category/from-the-collection/" class="">http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/category/from-the-collection/</a>), which CHM generally welcomes.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There are certainly lots of cases where your approach doesn’t work, such as when the ownership of the software has passed through multiple hands and the current owner doesn’t want to be bothered (but won’t necessarily even go so far as to sign a “quitclaim”).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">But by all means give it a try.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Paul</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 13, 2015, at 4:39 AM, Larry Masinter <<a href="mailto:masinter@adobe.com" class="">masinter@adobe.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><div class="">I've been thinking how I would go about trying to sell to management the "donation" of historical software at Adobe but also other companies, and I keep coming back to the idea that, instead of asking management to "donate", that instead you're really offering to management of a service: to curate and exhibit historically significant software to Museum quality.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You might want to offer a discount ("free") for some especially-significant software, but still: you're doing work and the "donation" really goes the other way.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Larry</div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>