Rank speculation and paranoia. There is a link at drdos.org
to the Lineo ftp site. All existing versions of DR-DOS are
available there for download. All the files are dated October
1999.
Lineo says they are concentrating on embedded Linux, but they would
be happy to sell DOS licenses for various purposes.
I tried downloading various things this morning and everything came
across just fine.
I don't know what the referance to copyright problems means, but I
don't think there's a problem with Lineo because they are making
DR-DOS redily available in multiple versions. Also lots of other
stuff too, like CP/M, GEM, and so forth.
Their attitude seems to be: check it out, experiment, try things.
If you come up with a viable commercial product they'll be happy to
sell licenses.
That's my interpretation.
Sam Ewalt
If they didn't want you to download it, they wouldn't make it available
would they?
On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Gil Parrish wrote:
> It's funny you mention www.drdos.org, because it currently says:
>
>
> "Problems with copyrighted files
> This site will be down for some days!
> There are some problems about the copyright of some emails and files.
>
> "If a email from you is included into Club Dr-DOS and you don't want
> that it is public, please tell it me!
>
> "There are also some files uploaded (Copyright by Lineo),
> so I will wait until they reply me.
>
> "I won't upload emails and files anymore, without your permission!"
>
>
> Somebody obviously got their hands slapped. Whether Lineo is actively
> trying to get DR-DOS off the web except for their own FTP site (so they pull
> the plug and have that be the end), or whether something else is going on, I
> haven't a clue. I would say that any user who can envision himself ever
> wanting or needing DR-DOS, he'd better get it now.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Sam Ewalt
> Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 8:51 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: http://disvr.cjb.net/dos/dls.html
>
>
> On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, L.D. Best wrote:
>
> > The site is there, but there are no files shown for download [by 1.67].
> >
> > l.d.
>
>
> Try www.drdos.org
>
>
> Lineo, while no longer developing DR-DOS still offers it for sale and
> supports it with various developer tools and forums.Plus it is
> main taining a server with all the various versions of DR-DOS available
> for download. And you can also purchase the source code.
>
> You can even download CP/M if you want. Tons of stuff easily available.
>
> Sam Ewalt
>
>
