At 02:02 PM 7/9/2004 +0200, Eric Auer wrote:
One poster said that he would be surprised that no FreeDOS people jumped the opportunity to help SpinRite, either for increased popularity and fame of FreeDOS itself or to get something back from GRC personally. Simple answer: GRC never asked the FreeDOS community, so there was no reply!
Basic question of confusion here: Since FreeDOS is GPL'ed, and since action was taken in the past against a vendor who distributed FreeDOS with their commercial product without that commercial product being GPL, and since SpinRite is not GPL or Open Source, how the heck would GRC use FreeDOS as its SpinRite distribution base? Is there a redistribution escape hatch?
In any case, it's not like GRC would put FreeDOS on the map through the the company's reflected glow, despite what a few of its more enthusiastic boosters might think. It is popular, but not earth-shatteringly so. Perhaps to put things in better perspective here, since DOS' heyday there has not uncommonly been public controversy and Usenet/closed net flaming involving Gibson every bit as bad or worse than the show here.
Also, $20000 can sound like a lot of money until you carve it up 20 different ways over several months with the accompanying squabbles of who did what and why they deserve a portion. Certainly $20K is nothing to scoff at, but I can't see it working other than either as a general contribution to the FreeDOS project infrastructure or by Gibson going to individual developers at FreeDOS version cut-points and compensating them to modify code on their own from that public release point.
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