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> Just wanted to share a quick update that when I see announcements
> about programs for FreeDOS, I might post them as news on the website,
> or tweet about them from the FreeDOS Twitter account:
> http://twitter.com/FreeDOS_Project
> I may sometimes share them on the FreeDOS Facebook
On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 3:29 AM Thomas Mueller wrote:
> Excerptfrom dmccunney:
>
> > > MS isn't the only vendor of a DOS-compatible OS. DR-DOS and ROM-DOS
> > > are still sold online. (Do OS/2 variants also count? Maybe.)
>
> > Which OS/2 variants? The one I'm aware of is eComStation,
> >
On facebook you will reach a lot of people, that do not read or even
heard about the mailing list(s).
Also I think it encourages people to get involved in discussions,
reviews, ... if they see these on their phones every day/when something
gets posted.
It is definitely not a place for serious
Thanks Gents!
You ave shed additional light on a rather complicated subject.
On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 6:24 PM Eric Auer wrote:
>
> Hi Don, at the risk of making this thread even longer...
>
> Yes, ebook readers tend to use Linux. Nicer brands even
> publish development kits ;-) But Linux is a
On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 1:29 PM Ben Sauvin wrote:
>
> Legacy applications can also be a lot of fun.
For suitable values of the term. :-p
> I used to work for a "high tech" company that ran a kind of ERP on DOS
> machines. It was a mass of compiled COBOL, source code not available and the
>
Hi Don, at the risk of making this thread even longer...
Yes, ebook readers tend to use Linux. Nicer brands even
publish development kits ;-) But Linux is a whole OS. So
as long as Amazon publishes any changes to the kernel
with sources, they can run any of their closed source,
DRM protected
Yes. And to be clear, I'm sharing via Twitter and Facebook announcements
about *FreeDOS programs that I see mentioned on freedos-devel and
freedos-user.*
So I'm just generally sharing when I tweet something vs when it gets posted
as news on the website.
I sometimes get asked "why didn't you
Brand new to this mailing list, but I wanted to respond to a conversation
about Open source licences, and apologies to the authors, I lost track of
who said what in the following:
>>> (Speaking personally, I'd love to see *FreeDOS* re-licensed under
>>> something other than the GPL.)
>> I don't
On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 1:16 PM Cuvtixo D wrote:
>
> Brand new to this mailing list, but I wanted to respond to a conversation
> about Open source licences, and apologies to the authors, I lost track of who
> said what in the following:
> >>> (Speaking personally, I'd love to see *FreeDOS*
Legacy applications can also be a lot of fun.
I used to work for a "high tech" company that ran a kind of ERP on DOS
machines. It was a mass of compiled COBOL, source code not available and
the company that produced it already gone out of business. Moving through
successive versions of Windows
On Sun, Sep 30, 2018 at 7:33 PM Jim Hall wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 30, 2018 at 6:00 PM, dmccunney wrote:
> > Agreed on being as free as possible, and the question is how free
> > FreeDOS *can* be.
> >
> > The bigger question is "Why use FreeDOS at *all*?" No amount of
> > freedom will compensate for
I'm glad this is being cleared up a bit here. Yes, I should have made the
civil/criminal distinction. Yes, it's too expensive to be practical for
commercial companies. But still, at least in my fantasies, Stallman would
have done a big fundraiser to bring such a case to court, since he seems to
be
So this statement caught my attention:" Other things that have a Linux
kernel uder the hood are the Amazon Kindle and B Nook eBook reader
devices (and source
for their Linux kernel and firmware is available."
Amazon may have released some part of the code but not all, else DRM would
not be
On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 2:32 PM Cuvtixo D wrote:
>
> I'm glad this is being cleared up a bit here. Yes, I should have made the
> civil/criminal distinction. Yes, it's too expensive to be practical for
> commercial companies. But still, at least in my fantasies, Stallman would
> have done a big
On 10/1/2018 10:14 AM, Cuvtixo D wrote:
Brand new to this mailing list, but I wanted to respond to a
conversation about Open source licences, and apologies to the authors,
I lost track of who said what in the following:
>>> (Speaking personally, I'd love to see *FreeDOS* re-licensed under
>>>
On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 4:41 PM Don Flowers wrote:
>
> So this statement caught my attention:" Other things that have a Linux kernel
> uder the hood are the Amazon Kindle and B Nook eBook reader devices (and
> source
> for their Linux kernel and firmware is available."
> Amazon may have
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