You might list dos payfor software, a link to it, price , and user rating. If people get paid there might be more activity in some types of sofware. I have a dos version of PIXEL, looks just like windows. My copy is crippled but I'd be happy to buy a full version if it every exists. Put some money into the pot and people might start writing high end stuff for dos which could make dos more popular.
cheers DS On Sun, 5 Nov 2017 15:46:46 -0600 Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> writes: > On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 9:48 AM, <userbeit...@abwesend.de> wrote: > > What I'm saying is that you might consider allowing additional > software, > > either in the main distribution, or - which would be even better: > to allow > > the addition of easy to set-up additional repositories, so that > users can > > easily get freeware that is closed source, or even shareware. > Anything that > > has a license allowing redistribution. > > This way the main FreeDOS distribution stays open and free (as in > freedom), > > while allowing the user to add freeware/shareware etc. by > utilizing the main > > free distribution. > > The rest of your email was about alt distributions with nonfree > packages, but I'll comment here: > > FreeDOS is very unusual in the "DOS" world by having a > "distribution" > and "packages." (We made FreeDOS this way to be more modular, thus > easier to modify - but also to appeal to a modern audience who is > more > familiar with Linux.) In every other version of DOS, going back to > MS-DOS and PC-DOS, you installed DOS from a few floppy disks. To > install other software, you either bought it from a store or > downloaded it from a BBS, and installing the other software was > either: > > 1. run the INSTALL or SETUP program, and follow the prompts > > 2. unzip (or unarc, or whatever) the archive file into a directory > > > If you have nonfree DOS applications (such as legacy "abandoned" > commercial software, or classic shareware, or some new program) you > install them easily enough using either of the above. > > In that way, "the main FreeDOS distribution stays open and free (as > in > freedom), while allowing the user to add freeware/shareware etc." > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ******************************************************>>>> >From Dale Sterner - MS organic chemistry http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jo00975a052 *******************************************************>>>> ____________________________________________________________ We Say Good Bye To Sally Fields iflperfecttouch.com http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/59ff8d56c7e94d565391st02duc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
