Listen, you guys can tie yourself in knots if you want to--but
Lineo just doesn't care about single copy usage. The minimum they
want to sell is fifty at a pop. Doesn't that tell you something?
There is no "market" for single copy DOS sales. The only viable market
is for embedded sytems and various devices and Lineo thinks Linux is
better for that anyway.
I say just go ahead and use it. If they didn't want people to use it
why would they make it freely available?
If you have scruples about this, then there is always FreeDos.
www.freedos.org
There is no way to pay for that version--its freeware all the way.
Sam Ewa;t
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Dec 2000 09:02:21 -0500 (EST), Sam Ewalt wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Thomas Mueller wrote:
>
> >> Now Caldera/Lineo is no longer selling DR-DOS except in lots of 50 or more
> >> copies. So where does that leave the notion of single-copy shareware?
>
> > You don't have to buy it for single copy use, you can just download it
> > from the Lineo server and use it. It's *free* for non-commercial use.
> > Single copy is, by definition, non-commercial use to my understanding.
> > Commercial use would just about have to involve multiple copies. wouldn't
> > it?
>
> According to my understanding, commercial use would include the use of it
> in conducting any part of your business operations, even if you were running
> just one copy of it, and even if you were running it only at home to help in
> operating just a home business, such as a home distributorship like Amway,
> or Avon, or Mary Kay Cosmetics, for example. Commercial use is any use for
> the business of making money. Commercial use would of course include
> spamming and also perfectly legal advertising as well.
>
> All the best,
>
> Sam Heywood
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