On Wed, 15 May 2024 at 21:31, Roger via Freedos-user <[email protected]> wrote: > > Excuse #1, there's no money being acquired for going over code for > releasing as open source.
Agreed. It is willing to release stuff it happens to find or others happen to find in order to sweeten the FOSS fanatics a bit, but it is not willing to go to any actual work in order to find things to release. Now, true, there is a difference here between DOS 4, 5 and 6. 4 contains only MS and IBM code (AFAIK). 5 is more useful as it contains memory management code to give ~620kB free base memory. 6 contains multiple pieces of code from other companies: * MEMMAKER (Helix Software) https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/31894 * Antivirus/Backup/Defrag (Central Point Software) * DoubleSpace (Vertisoft/STAC Electronics) * DriveSpace (Vertisoft) They'd either need to remove these, or trace the copyright holders and get rights from them. Much too much work! -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: [email protected] ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: [email protected] Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven oM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
