Hi, at the risk of making this thread long... > If your priority is not to break the law, buy MS-DOS (and/or Win4.x) > install disks plus license and use (or DEBUG) these legally ;-)
You know that open source has advantages, for example FreeDOS runs on more modern hardware and is actively supported. If you try to buy MS DOS instead, they will just tell you that you have bad taste and should buy Vista ;-). In addition, I have no compatibility problems with FreeDOS that would motivate me to use another DOS instead. > If you use leaked Microsoft code then that's as if Microsoft would use > open-sourced FreeDOS code without providing the source of it or links or > whatever. (Just as DR-DOS, Inc did for their crappy DR-DOS version 8.00; > and no one accepted it back then...) Interestingly, the Free Software Foundation even has a legal department to put pressure on people who try to sell closed source modifications of open source software... So while you cannot "steal" free software by using it, ABusing it for your own profit in ways violating the license is still illegal. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
