Hi!
>I've recently had an experience trying to track down a TSR to fix a bug in
>Diamond video cards; the chipset does not support an old DOS font, so the
>manufacturer years ago made a small TSR to allow you to view the font.
Only
>you can't find the file anymore. Diamond apparently allowed the file only
>on its website, and after the latest reshuffle, it's not on their website.
>Multiple contacts with Diamond support produced nothing-- apparently, if
>it's not "on-line", the minimum wage folks in customer service don't think
>it exists, or perhaps ever existed.
>
>Paranoid? It wouldn't take much more than a minor change in policy or
>corporate reshuffle to make DR-DOS unavailable through legitimate channels.
>I already have it, so it's no skin off my nose. If you think it will
always
>be available-- well, maybe it will be. Who knows? I certainly don't.
For private non-commercial use it is free. They will not change it. I think
they would make it GPL, if there would be no competitor.
Bye, Florian Xaver
www.drdos.org
www.seal.de.vu
