Microsoft might have a thing or two to say about that. (o:
In reality (figuratively speaking)I think a lot of it is already ? True ?
No, try searching for Vista Pro 4 for PC and you will find many people selling you the program not giving it away despite its age.
As to the thread title, the first thing that needs to happen is for companies like Cloanto to disappear instantly, and Kickstart and Workbench 1.0 to 3.1 to become freeware and public domain.
I fail to see the point of Amiga Forever and copyright lawyers now that Amiga Inc has disappeared down a black hole. For god's sake let the retro community have what it deserves, FREE UNENCUMBERED EMULATION. For 25+ years it has been us not Commodore/Escom/Gateway/Hyperion/Amiga Inc/Cloanto who have sold more Amigas and kept a dead machine alive and well for a quarter of a century NOT them.
Instead we get slapped in the face by fools like Cloanto breaking functionality and versatility of UAE (why did they allow Cloanto to use it? idiot programmers!) to enforce rip-off pricing of AF, and totally redundant overpriced old technology paperweights like x1000 as our 'saviour'.
Some people even think Amiga Forever is a good thing for us LOL.
