Eric Auer wrote: > 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.
Eric, here is your signboard :D Please don't feed the trolls. It's not good for them, nor is it for us ;) P.S. I am sure I have a stack of MS-DOS licenses somewhere in the basement. If someone really wants to have one, feel free to apply. Just to close this IMO silly thread ;) Best regards, Andre ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
