Re: [Freedos-user] LBA And FreeDOS.

2013-12-06 Thread Jack
It's really too bad, though, that MS won't make it official and release the MS-DOS source as public domain, or at least one of the various open-source licenses. Surely you JEST!, my friend [are joking]! Gates Co. are charter members of the U.S.A.'s All we want is MONEY! brotherhood!

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDNPKG 16 bit port and other package system improvements

2013-12-06 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 11:43 AM, sparky4 insano sparky44...@gmail.com wrote: I really wish there was a 16 bit port of fdnpkg! but it is quite difficult to port it over These are just .ZIPs with a special layout, so it's not like you can't manually install them. Besides, most

Re: [Freedos-user] LBA And FreeDOS.

2013-12-06 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Jack gykazequ...@earthlink.net wrote: Note on the FreeDOS main page that there are comments about FreeDOS offering LBA large-disk capability (48-bit disk addressing, not 24- bit CHS), which MS-DOS did not have, and which the main page says was unavailable

Re: [Freedos-user] LBA And FreeDOS.

2013-12-06 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Jack gykazequ...@earthlink.net wrote: Wengier Wu's MS-DOS 7 variant has a licensing issue ... So what??, as I noted in my prior post. At least 18 years have gone by since Gates Co. declared DOS is dead!, and no lawyers I know of have EVER gone-after

Re: [Freedos-user] LBA And FreeDOS.

2013-12-06 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, (yet another inane response from me) On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Jack gykazequ...@earthlink.net wrote: It's really too bad, though, that MS won't make it official and release the MS-DOS source as public domain, or at least one of the various open-source licenses. How would that be