Interesting development:
Richard Stallman emailed me last night to suggest I work with the GNU
licensing folks on this topic.
So I'll follow up with them off list and report back on where things go.
On Jan 22, 2017 8:34 PM, "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6...@twc.com> wrote:
> Excerpt from Rugxulo:
>
> > So that's bare minimum (not counting drivers / extensions like XMS or
> > DPMI or mouse or ...).
>
> > But, even then, FSF hates mentioning or linking to proprietary
> > software, yet FreeDOS is meant to be binary compatible with as much
> > legacy software as possible. So it's the same problem as ReactOS:
>
> > https://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.en.html
>
> I read that page, and it looks like a tall order to produce an OS or
> distro fully free by their criteria. Even mentioning how to get something
> nonfree disqualifies?
>
> >From that page:
>
> ReactOS
>
> ReactOS is meant as a free binary compatible replacement for Windows.
> Use with proprietary software and drivers meant for Windows is one of the
> stated goals of the project.
>
> I think that would also be true for FreeDOS, replacing "ReactOS" with
> "FreeDOS" and "Windows" with "DOS" (such as DR-DOS, MS-DOS and PC-DOS).
>
> It would be an awful tall order for FreeDOS to replace all legacy SCSI
> drivers and other hardware drivers with open-source versions.
>
> Part of the purpose of FreeDOS is to use with proprietary DOS software
> such as business applications (Quattro Pro for DOS, dBASE for DOS) and
> legacy DOS games. This could be said for DOSBox as well.
>
> I have run Borland Quattro Pro and dBASE under both DOSBox and FreeDOS.
>
> One of the goals of Wine is to use with proprietary Windows software.
>
> Tom
>
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