Hi! >>>> Try www.bootdisk.com. ... >>> Is that legal? >> Nope.
> So FreeDOS 1.0 will be buggy software, > created using illegal software. I would not say so. Michael compared MS DOS behaviour to FreeDOS behaviour to find a bug. To ensure compatibility (interoperability), even limited reverse engineering would have been allowed in Germany. But that was not even necessary, as only the behaviour, not the code, of MS DOS was checked to find what turned out to be a bug in QuickBASIC 4... Yet I suggest that experiments with MS DOS are best done by those people who already do own MS DOS. Normally we get reports like "this works on MS DOS and when I change to FreeDOS it breaks", so the bug reporters are likely to be MS DOS owners :-). But then, those are often no programmers. If you want maximum legality, we could purchase a copy of MS DOS for testing purposes. > (Buggy because FreeDOS 1.0 is being rushed out without > proper bug-fixing period.) You are free to report bugs at any time. Actually you could have started reporting bugs years ago, so I would not say that FreeDOS 1.0 is released prematurely or is rushed out. > Doesn't sound too good... You probably know that MS DOS 1.0 did not even support subdirectories... ;-). While FreeDOS 1.0 is delayed because we keep adding features to our wishlist. Some of which are beyond MS DOS 6.xx! So, please let me (or us) know which aspects of FreeDOS are still "broken enough" to justify further delays in the FreeDOS 1.0 release. I do think that if we compare to Linux, FreeDOS 1.0 is worth at least the maturity of Linux 2.2 :-). Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
