Re: [Freedos-user] Licensing issues

2011-06-07 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Bernd Blaauw wrote: > Op 7-6-2011 23:46, Rugxulo schreef: > >> VirtualBox may?? support USB booting (or at least reading) nowadays, >> but I've never bothered. > > My idea is indeed to find a boot environment for USB flash media, and > test the following: > * i

Re: [Freedos-user] Licensing issues

2011-06-07 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 7-6-2011 23:46, Rugxulo schreef: > VirtualBox may?? support USB booting (or at least reading) nowadays, > but I've never bothered. My idea is indeed to find a boot environment for USB flash media, and test the following: * is USB seen as A: or C: * can I boot it directly * can I boot DOS throug

Re: [Freedos-user] Licensing issues

2011-06-07 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Bernd Blaauw wrote: > Op 7-6-2011 21:01, Mike Eriksen schreef: > > I've never managed to succesfully create & test any bootable USB flash > disc. I'm not aware of any emulation/virtualisation software supporting > USB booting for easy testing, and my motherboar

Re: [Freedos-user] Licensing issues

2011-06-07 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 7-6-2011 21:01, Mike Eriksen schreef: > If Linux counts as "a more powerful/modern" OS I yet haven't failed to > make a bootable USB key. It may require some brute force like wiping > the entire disk out with zeros and then start from scratch - > partitioning, putting on a MBR, formatting and ev

Re: [Freedos-user] Licensing issues

2011-06-07 Thread Mike Eriksen
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Bernd Blaauw wrote: > The problem ofcourse is getting a more powerful/modern operating system > on a internet-connected yet stand-alone machine. Resorting to making USB > sticks bootable (any 100% way to do so?) and testing them, or getting > SATA optical drives is

Re: [Freedos-user] Licensing issues

2011-06-07 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 7-6-2011 20:05, Willi Wasser schreef: > I really didn't expect to trigger so much controversy with my initial > questions. And i found it interesting to learn that companies like HP and > DELL still offer DOS. But if one takes a closer look, it becomes soon clear, > that DOS for them is more

Re: [Freedos-user] Licensing issues

2011-06-03 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Jue 02 Jun 2011 03:42:04 Willi Wasser escribió: > > Some developers may not be too happy > > about the license choice, especially > > those who would like to grab your code > > and try to make money from it by making > > it part of an unfree software. > > Let's be serious! Is there still a mark

Re: [Freedos-user] Licensing issues

2011-06-03 Thread David Griffith
On Thu, 2 Jun 2011, Michael B. Brutman wrote: > On 6/2/2011 1:42 AM, Willi Wasser wrote: >>> Some developers may not be too happy >>> about the license choice, especially >>> those who would like to grab your code >>> and try to make money from it by making >>> it part of an unfree software. >> Le

Re: [Freedos-user] Licensing issues

2011-06-02 Thread Michael B. Brutman
On 6/2/2011 1:42 AM, Willi Wasser wrote: >> Some developers may not be too happy >> about the license choice, especially >> those who would like to grab your code >> and try to make money from it by making >> it part of an unfree software. > Let's be serious! Is there still a market for any kind of

Re: [Freedos-user] Licensing issues

2011-06-02 Thread Jim Hall
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Bret Johnson wrote: >> Just the other day, I saw a cash register that was clearly running a >> DOS interface. So yes, DOS is still around. Maybe you don't see it as >> often as a plain desktop user interface, but it's there. > > You'd probably be amazed at how many

Re: [Freedos-user] Licensing issues

2011-06-02 Thread Bret Johnson
> Just the other day, I saw a cash register that was clearly running a > DOS interface. So yes, DOS is still around. Maybe you don't see it as > often as a plain desktop user interface, but it's there. You'd probably be amazed at how many embedded and industrial control systems are based on DOS.

Re: [Freedos-user] Licensing issues

2011-06-02 Thread Jim Hall
> > I've seen a lot of drive-through video screens using DOS in some form or > another. > Just the other day, I saw a cash register that was clearly running a DOS interface. So yes, DOS is still around. Maybe you don't see it as often as a plain desktop user interface, but it's there. ---

Re: [Freedos-user] Licensing issues

2011-06-02 Thread David Griffith
On Thu, 2 Jun 2011, Willi Wasser wrote: >> Some developers may not be too happy >> about the license choice, especially >> those who would like to grab your code >> and try to make money from it by making >> it part of an unfree software. > > Let's be serious! Is there still a market for any kind