On Sun, Nov 17, 2024 at 9:39 PM Wolf Bergenheim via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > What about 4DOS, should we ship it as well? It's Open Source sort-of~ish...
There's some history here, to my shame. :-( The brief version is I was in contact with JP Software long ago and asked if they might release 4DOS as open source. They were concerned about that because there was so much shared code between 4DOS and their "4NT" product (aka "TakeCommand"). I gave them bad advice that they could modify an open source license to limit it to DOS. But unfortunately, that makes it not open source. Instead, I've encouraged here and elsewhere (but a long time ago) that it would be great for an enterprising new developer to create something like it, which I proposed as "3DOS" (because in English, "3" sounds a bit like "Free" .. and I thought that was a cute name). This "3DOS" would have similar features, but might use a simplified version of BASIC as a "scripting" language. I once wrote a "spec" that suggested a BASIC-like variant that remained compatible with BAT files .. but an "extended" BAT program. Others pointed out it was along the same lines as PowerShell, but limited for DOS. _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
