Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeCOM 0.84-pre5 prerelease

2018-08-24 Thread TK Chia
Hello all, I am still getting some very weird observations when look into why FreeCOM weirds out: When I recompiled FreeCOM on my end with GCC, and tried to run "fetch mem" inside the METADOS setup, the command.com grew the heap area very quickly when handling the complex batch files, and

Re: [Freedos-devel] Does Digital Mars C/C++ compiler able to compile FreeDOS kernel, FreeCOM, and others?

2018-08-24 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 6:48 AM David McMackins wrote: > > > in that case, you are showing acute symptoms of stallmanitis. > > You can use slurs all you want. Some people here are apparently not as pro Free Software as the rest of us. Though it's (almost) impossible to be a zealot with DOS,

Re: [Freedos-devel] Does Digital Mars C/C++ compiler able to compile FreeDOS kernel, FreeCOM, and others?

2018-08-24 Thread David McMackins
> in that case, you are showing acute symptoms of stallmanitis. You can use slurs all you want. I'm citing an accepted definition to clear a misconception. By the way, I don't even like Richard Stallman, and I won't be part of the FSF much longer. FreeDOS claims to be a free system with all

Re: [Freedos-devel] Does Digital Mars C/C++ compiler able to compile FreeDOS kernel, FreeCOM, and others?

2018-08-24 Thread Tom Ehlert
>> You're kidding, right? > Um, no I'm not kidding. you are not kidding, because it's not even remotely funny. in that case, you are showing acute symptoms of stallmanitis. > Happy Hacking, > David E. McMackins II > Supporting Member, Electronic Frontier Foundation (#2296972) > Associate

Re: [Freedos-devel] Does Digital Mars C/C++ compiler able to compile FreeDOS kernel, FreeCOM, and others?

2018-08-24 Thread David McMackins
> You're kidding, right? Um, no I'm not kidding. You should read any one of the free licenses on this list: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#SoftwareLicenses For any given one of them, whoever is distributing it is allowed to charge a fee, and then the recipient may distribute

Re: [Freedos-devel] Does Digital Mars C/C++ compiler able to compile FreeDOS kernel, FreeCOM, and others?

2018-08-24 Thread Ralf Quint
On 8/23/2018 11:42 AM, David McMackins wrote: And that means you still have to pay $59 to get the source code for the compiler, which I think, regardless of license, doesn't really qualify as ' more "free" than OpenWatcom'... Not really. If it's under a free (as in freedom) license, then only

Re: [Freedos-devel] Does Digital Mars C/C++ compiler able to compile FreeDOS kernel, FreeCOM, and others?

2018-08-24 Thread Ralf Quint
On 8/23/2018 12:23 PM, Robert Riebisch wrote: Hi Ralf, Do you have a link stating that Walter Bright changed the license on his C(++) compiler? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17129678 Besten Dank, Robert! Just curious as to why there is not one word mentioned on his Digital Mars web