On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 2:12 PM, Dale E Sterner <sunbeam...@juno.com> wrote: > I wouldn't expect them to ever release the source but > to put it back on the market for sale, like it use to be. > Not everthing can be open and free. If you tell them you > have a million downloads they may feel there is once > again a viable market for their product and will sell > and upgrade their dos line. I thing that Corel still has > alot of dos fans out there. I think alot of people miss > the simplicity and practicality of dos. Don't expect the > world to be completely free. DOS isn't worth much > without high quality software to run on it
I wouldn't expect release of source, either, though it would be nice. But neither would I expect release for sale. Who would *buy* it? DOS has been dead for years, and I doubt there would be enough paying customers to make sales worth the while. Actually *selling* stuff involves costs to be *able* to sell it, and unless you are confident of a decent sales volume, it's not worth doing. Yes, FreeDOS 1.1 has gotten a million downloads, but that, by itself, is meaningless. How many of the downloaders actually installed it, and on what? How many are actually using it, and what are they doing with it if they are? (My own bet is that most actually using it are doing do to play old DOS games *native*, not use stuff like WP or QPro.) Best case, you get what Embarcadero once did. They inherited the former Borland DOS products like Turbo-C, and were offering them as unsupported freeware downloads from a community link on their site. There was no *paying* market for the DOS stuff, but making it available was a nice gesture and good publicity for the Windows based stuff they could *sell*. > cheers > DS. ______ Dennis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
