Re: [Freedos-user] Not to flame but let others know ...

2006-04-19 Thread Michael Devore
At 01:43 PM 4/19/2006 +0800, Johnson Lam wrote: Forward an email from Jack, hoping everyone can understand what's going on, I'd like the others to understand the whole thing, not out of context: snipped It is a flame, as you well know, but it seems you have become immune to any sense of

Re: [Freedos-user] parallel port question

2006-04-19 Thread Robert Riebisch
coralline algae wrote: At that point the vendor said oh sorry you need to buy one of our pc's as we only support spp mode and we can supply that pc hardware. SPP stands for 'Standard Parallel Port'. But the PS/2 bidirectional port is a standard port with input mode capability, enabled via bit

Re: [Freedos-user] Not to flame but let others know ...

2006-04-19 Thread Shane M. Coughlan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 What a load of nonsense this is. Johnson Lam wrote: Forward an email from Jack, hoping everyone can understand what's going on, I'd like the others to understand the whole thing, not out of context: That was not a particularly useful thing to

[Freedos-user] re: Not to flame but let others know ...

2006-04-19 Thread Eric Auer
Hi all, Shane is right. As is Jim. You cannot remove GPL from a software. So you cannot force us to delete XCDROM and XDMA. And, why should we? They are good software and you do not allow us to use the better QCDROM and QDMA instead. You can do the latter, because as the author, you can release a

[Freedos-user] Getting stuff done

2006-04-19 Thread Shane M. Coughlan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi everyone The FreeDOS Beta9sr2 distribution has some errors with the installer, and needs to be replaced. I'm having a look at the CD ISO and the floppy image this week. Does anyone have a neat list of what updated files could go into a new

Re: [Freedos-user] Not to flame but let others know ...

2006-04-19 Thread Johnson Lam
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:29:40 +0100, you wrote: Hi, What a load of nonsense this is. If you talk about the GPL, there're misunderstanding here. That was not a particularly useful thing to do Johnson. I think you missed some scene here, so I don't want to talk about the personal matter between

[Freedos-user] Re: Do you see why I retired from the FreeDOS development?

2006-04-19 Thread Johnson Lam
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:57:36 +0300, you wrote: Hi Lucho, Do you see now why I retired from the FreeDOS development? Yes, sadly. I view of all latest events I must say that however I admire Jack's work, Shane, Eric and Jim are right. It was me who sent the deleted XDMA to Jim to add to his

[Freedos-user] re: Not to flame but let others know ...

2006-04-19 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Johnson, 1) Jack don't want to let people think his work is a part of FreeDOS, he didn't ask ALL the people to remove the XDMA source, just don't want it on FreeDOS server Fewer people will use XDMA when it is no longer included with FreeDOS. 2) He didn't limit anyone to use the XDMA

Re: [Freedos-user] re: FreeDos a good choice for me?

2006-04-19 Thread Scott Mayo
I'd originally posted, asking if FreeDOS is right for my application. Since I've joined the list, I've had one or two people suggest other operating systems, and a bunch of people bickering of the ownership of some wretched piece of software. No one has stepped up and suggested that FreeDOS is

Re: [Freedos-user] re: FreeDos a good choice for me?

2006-04-19 Thread Schumacher, Gordon
# On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:25:05 -0400, Scott Mayo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # # Since I've joined the list, I've had one or two people suggest other # operating systems, and a bunch of people bickering of the ownership of # some wretched piece of software. No one has stepped up and suggested