Hi, I fully agree - do not look at MS sources. Otherwise you risk legal problems like "your stuff is only compatible because you stole the code!".
I hear that most of MS DOS 6.00 (not the 3rd party things) and 3.30 are "out there". And this new thing which seems to unzip to 0.6 - 2 GB of code from WinNT and Win2000. Well. If I want to steal MS DOS then I would just download the binary, obviously. This is FreeDOS and supposed to stay free. Including FREE FROM LICENSE TROUBLES. We are even careful not to let original DR-DOS code into FreeDOS because their license is too unfree. DOS is very old. No reason why we would have to steal to write programs which can do the same or even better more than ten years later. Sure MS has more money, but if we have a lack of time, we can simply lower the priority of extra stuff like BWBasic and focus on core functionality of DOS. For that, our lower manpower should be enough. And of course this project is a challenge and fun. Just writing a new Makefile for MS Sources would be a VERY boring way to "clone" MS DOS functionality! That said, we MIGHT eventually start working on Windows 3 compatibility... but even that should be possible to reasonable extend with using only publicly available free information. So I agree: DO NOT LOOK at those MS sources. Eric. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
