Personally, I would say bollocks to the rule regarding "abandonware", simply because a lot of the software isn't supported by the company or they are long gone. If Micro$oft discontinues and won't provide support for Works 2.0, then by all means, copy away.

I find a lot of sites that point to this link for a backup copy of this old useful app, and when I click on it, the link is dead. I go to, say here, the hotline servers, and that same app is safely stored and ready to pickup.

73s 8)