Re: [Freedos-devel] stupid question

2015-06-23 Thread Michael Brutman
Tom's method of correcting your behavior was, shall we say, blunt, but the underlying criticism is still valid for any mailing list. - Subject lines should reflect the subject. Start a new thread if necessary. - If you are asking for help you should include whatever diagnostic information you

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeCOM high CPU consumption

2015-06-23 Thread Mateusz Viste
On 23/06/2015 15:41, JAYDEN CHARBONNEAU wrote: I have a memory problem.I booted FreeDOS into my flashdrive,which is 8 gigabytes.But when I ran MEM,it reported that I have under 1 megabyte of free memory.If I run Visual Basic 1.0,it reports that I am out of memory.Any help for this?I have

Re: [Freedos-devel] stupid question

2015-06-23 Thread JAYDEN CHARBONNEAU
even a clueless moron like you could Tom.I DO NOT like your disrespect.Call me a moron again,and we are going to have a problem.These threads are to help make FreeDOS a better operating system.I could not figure out why I am getting an out of memory error message,so i posted it as a possible

Re: [Freedos-devel] stupid question

2015-06-23 Thread Tom Ehlert
I have a memory problem.I booted FreeDOS into my flashdrive,which is 8 gigabytes.But when I ran MEM,it reported that I have under 1 megabyte of free memory.If I run Visual Basic 1.0,it reports that I am out of memory.Any help for this?I have absolutely no clue,to be honest.I can't even

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 package compilation

2015-06-23 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 1:17 PM, Mercury Thirteen mercury0x0...@gmail.com wrote: I'm still reviewing the packages to ensure they're all open source compliant. What are we considering acceptable in this regard? Are we going only with software which has been made available under one of

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 package compilation

2015-06-23 Thread Mercury Thirteen
I'm still reviewing the packages to ensure they're all open source compliant. What are we considering acceptable in this regard? Are we going only with software which has been made available under one of the GNU licenses exclusively? Obviously programs which are free but have no source available

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 package compilation

2015-06-23 Thread Steve Nickolas
On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Mercury Thirteen wrote: I'm still reviewing the packages to ensure they're all open source compliant. What are we considering acceptable in this regard? Are we going only with software which has been made available under one of the GNU licenses exclusively? Obviously

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 package compilation

2015-06-23 Thread Mercury Thirteen
I would tend to agree; GPL / public domain / source-code-free-and-available-at-no-cost options are all viable in my mind, but I want to 1) make sure I perform this task to the standards of the project's leader and the community to which I have volunteered and 2) avoid a potential user out there

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 package compilation

2015-06-23 Thread Steve Nickolas
On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Mercury Thirteen wrote: I guess I didn't scroll up enough to read your reply! Sorry about that, and thanks for the input. :) So, you're saying we should only use 100% GPL software, yes? I can easily go through and pull the affected packages; I really don't think there

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 package compilation

2015-06-23 Thread Mercury Thirteen
Yes, they should be. I think they are all mostly the same as the GPL, but I'm not certain. For the time being, I'll just remove the closed source packages and leave all the public domain and source-freely-available programs. If there's an issue, I can always pull more stuff out later on. On Tue,

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 package compilation

2015-06-23 Thread Mercury Thirteen
I guess I didn't scroll up enough to read your reply! Sorry about that, and thanks for the input. :) So, you're saying we should only use 100% GPL software, yes? I can easily go through and pull the affected packages; I really don't think there are that many remaining, so going with GPL-only

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 package compilation

2015-06-23 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Mercury Thirteen: Yes, they should be. I think they are all mostly the same as the GPL, but I'm not certain. For the time being, I'll just remove the closed source packages and leave all the public domain and source-freely-available programs. If there's an issue, I can always pull more

Re: [Freedos-devel] stupid question

2015-06-23 Thread Ralf Quint
On 6/23/2015 7:28 AM, Michael Brutman wrote: Tom's method of correcting your behavior was, shall we say, blunt, but the underlying criticism is still valid for any mailing list. - Subject lines should reflect the subject. Start a new thread if necessary. - If you are asking for help you