On Tue, 30 Nov 2021 at 16:08, Ivan Ivanov <[email protected]> wrote:
> Not to mention that nobody cares about the pyracy of ancient software > which is older than your mom ;-) My mum is _considerably_ older than electronic computers of any form. I'm older than microprocessors myself. :-รพ Look, there is no such thing as "abandonware", not legally. But if IBM itself makes it a free download, is that not legitimate? If a company offers its own product for free download to anyone, customer or not, without login or any record-taking, I really don't think that counts as piracy in any way. It's only a boot diskette image and a few core tools. You need the rest of PC DOS 2000 to make it into a full DOS. That _is_ arguably piracy, though, although I suppose you could buy a used copy. There never was an MS-DOS 7.x; it is part of Windows 95OSR2 or Win98, and the latest version of Windows is still on active sale. If a related product is still on sale, then I myself do not consider that "abandoned". I merely offered a freeware (no, not FOSS) alternative. Lest anyone accuse me of spamming: this isn't mine; I make nothing from it; I do not work for IBM or any part of it. I'm just sharing info. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: [email protected] ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: [email protected] Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
