Hi!
27-Ноя-2006 09:29 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lester) wrote to
[email protected]:
>> How about licensing? Is qxumbpci GPL/open source?
>> If it is closed source it may give you better performance, but you
>> risk that the program may be abandoned and no-one to be able to take
>> it back.
L> I assume this message is directed to FreeDos official SourceForge project
L> managers,
Q-drivers are positioned by their author as opposition for FreeDOS
project and its contributors, because authors thinks we all are "NAZI".
L> but I will put in my two cents what I think about all this as
L> just an end user.
L> I don't even know what GPL stands for and I wouldn't care less. All what
You should, or you lost. For example, FreeDOS was developed from
scratch, because there was no initial base, which was may be used (MS-DOS is
commercial, proprietary, closed source solution). _If_ MS-DOS was GPLed,
then we was may have FreeDOS twenty years earlier.
L> A driver getting abandoned is an inconvenience to be expected from any
L> free software.
Of course. But open-sourced software may intercepted/forked/supported
by other peoples, whereas for closed source software this is impossible. For
example, OpenWatcom is hosted by SciTech, but most/all changes/evolutions,
starting from version 1.0, was contributions...
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