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Comment on Ask HN: What happens to orphaned source code after a startup shuts down?

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It's considered one of their assets and therefore has a value during liquidation. But since it's unlikely that anyone else could do anything with it, the value is probably close to zero.

Realistically, you could probably buy it but the people who wrote it would be long gone and probably uninterested in helping you bring it back online.

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