On Mon, 9 Oct 2023 at 22:05, Pedro Luis Carballosa Mass via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > I don't know if Turbo Basic is paid because Borland offered several outdated > environments for free.
Freeware is not the same thing as open source, though. It's the FOSS part that is important here. For instance, some freeware programming languages restrict your rights about what you can write with them. Such as: you are allowed to write and compile code for your own use, but not to distribute it; or, you can, but not as open source itself. This is one of the two core reason that the GNOME desktop for Linux exists. KDE appeared about a year earlier, but KDE is implemented using the Qt toolkit, and Qt was not FOSS. So, as an example, Red Hat refused to distribute KDE or make KDE part of Red Hat Linux. So, RH sponsored development of a rival desktop that used a 100% FOSS toolkit instead: the one from the Gimp image editor. (There was a second reason: KDE uses C++ but a lot of traditional Unix folks don't like C++ and prefer plain old C.) > The calculator was an intermediate so as not to make the tutorial too boring, > and its usefulness in FreeDOS would also be educational, not as just another > program to be used. Right, good, so, if possible, please port it to a FOSS version of BASIC, which would mean the app and the tooling could be distributed alongside and as part of FreeDOS. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
