Hi Johnson / Jack / Jim / ...,
I'm not going to tell that man ONE DAMN THING of what I know about FDXMS.
I had hoped you would want FDXMS to improve. But okay, it seems like you prefer to replace it, and do want FDXMS to stay buggy. Your choice.
... after saying "the first 50 lines" ... I shouldn't need to tell a "normal" programmer they are its comments!!
It is my free choice not to know the contents of fdxms.asm by heart. It is good to hear from you that this file starts with 50 or more lines of comments, but you cannot expect me to actually download and read the file. In other words, it is far from obvious for me that the first 50 lines of the source are not source but are comments. Don't blame me for being ignorant about this.
Auer continues to think my QHIMEM sources "questionable", he need only ask Lucho where to find such sources on the Microsoft servers!
That is indeed interesting to know. MS published the sources of their own himem on their own servers? Why did you not tell that before? And which license do they use? I guess we have had that discussion before, but you should NOT assume that I know everything which I COULD find out in 15 minutes if I had KNOWN beforehand where to look. In other words, I did not ask Lucho, because nobody told me to ask Lucho. My opinion was just based on my "offline" experience that MS never lets other people use the source code (and often does not even let them see it) of their stuff.
Sad, as you told me, that Martin Stromberg left FreeDOS same as I did... so I guess FDXMS will never be upgraded. Otherwise, I would send him some lines from QHIMEM and he could upgrade FDXMS in maybe 20 minutes.
You can meet Martin on our IRC channel every day. He is often away from keyboard, so do not expect a quick reaction. He did not "leave FreeDOS" if you ask me - but he sees little NEED for FDXMS updates at the moment and thinks that FDXMS has very few bugs, so there ARE no FDXMS updates. Email him about the bugs, then he might publish bugfixes. In addition, Martin does not have much spare time for hobby projects like FDXMS. Some of his other projects are simply no part of FreeDOS because they are still experimental. As most of us, his goal is not to make DOS perfect but to do some interesting experiments with it and to create something useful. We are in the lucky situation that we can share the results of those experiments, and others can enjoy FreeDOS without having programmed anything for it themselves, but obviously it is not our job or duty to make FreeDOS meet any specific project goals. Nobody is paid to work on it. Eric PS: Jim wrote
You know, I'm _really_ tired of hearing this same rant. I'd appreciate if you wouldn't keep reposting this to the mailing lists. It's not productive...
... I would also appreciate if Jack / Johnson wrote more helpful and fewer "rantful" mails. But I have learned to either ignore the rants or at least not to get angry about them ... If you read between the lines, the rants sometimes even do contain useful information. Well. Sometimes they do ... ------------------------------------------------------- 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-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
