Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS, Borland's current status and Borland's DOS software

2006-07-10 Thread Wesley Parish
On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 05:30, Jim Hall wrote: > Wesley Parish wrote: > > There was a thread on getting writers and maintainers of old retired DOS > > software to release it as Open Source and I've lost track of it, > > otherwise I would be continuing it. My bad. > > > > What I want to ask is, has any

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS, Borland's current status and Borland's DOS software

2006-07-09 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 9-Июл-2006 21:02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aitor Santamarэa) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: >> _If_ you persuade Borland to release TP as free(dom) software, and _if_ >> you get maintain of it by you, and _if_ you will fix bugs in it - I will not AS> I am not the only one DOS Pasca

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS, Borland's current status and Borland's DOS software

2006-07-09 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hi, 2006/7/9, Arkady V.Belousov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > _If_ you persuade Borland to release TP as free(dom) software, and _if_ > you get maintain of it by you, and _if_ you will fix bugs in it - I will not I am not the only one DOS Pascal programmer in the world. > object for this. I only d

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS, Borland's current status and Borland's DOS software

2006-07-09 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 9-Июл-2006 19:54 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aitor Santamarэa) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: AS> TurboPascal is by far the most used Pascal dialect, Yes, Turbo Pascal creates new language, called "Turbo Pascal", and Borland compilers is standard de-facto for this language. But thi

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS, Borland's current status and Borland's DOS software

2006-07-09 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hi Arkady, TurboPascal is by far the most used Pascal dialect, even if not standarized (and FreePascal followed the good work, much ahead of the more standard GPC). In fact, both FreePascal and Delphi has been ported to Linux (and other platforms) so that you can create platform-independent apps (

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS, Borland's current status and Borland's DOS software

2006-07-09 Thread Jim Hall
Wesley Parish wrote: > There was a thread on getting writers and maintainers of old retired DOS > software to release it as Open Source and I've lost track of it, otherwise I > would be continuing it. My bad. > > What I want to ask is, has anyone approached Borland about the possibility of > re

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS, Borland's current status and Borland's DOS software

2006-07-09 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 9-Июл-2006 18:10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aitor Santamarэa) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: >> So, even if Borland releases their compilers as open source, this gives >> nothing useful. And even if they release compilers as free(dom) open-source, >> I doubt that someone (experience

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS, Borland's current status and Borland's DOS software

2006-07-09 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hi, 2006/7/9, Arkady V.Belousov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi! > > 9-Июл-2006 23:12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wesley Parish) wrote to > freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: > > WP> What I want to ask is, has anyone approached Borland about the possibility > WP> of > WP> releasing their DOS compiler and databa

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS, Borland's current status and Borland's DOS software

2006-07-09 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 9-Июл-2006 23:12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wesley Parish) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: WP> What I want to ask is, has anyone approached Borland about the possibility WP> of WP> releasing their DOS compiler and database products as Open Source? I've I suggest, that releasing Bo