Or wrote:
>Have a look at http://www.drdos.com . The lawsuit that Caldera have
>filled against MS in 1996 is over. Caldera seems to won - result is
>that MS will pay Caldera quite a large sum of money, according to
>Slashdot.
I must say the server was incredible slow today. But neither side actually
won - this was outside the courts. M$ has always been able to settle
outside of court :(
>..now that they have moved to Linux, and the lawsuit is over, it looks
>like all their reasons for holding DR-DOS and developing it are over.
>Infact, they didnt do anything about DR-DOS for a very long time now,
>except for a "upgrade" 7.02 - 7.03 files in their site.
>I really do wonder if its going to survive. btw, is it just me
>or did the OpenDOS mailing-list at Caldera have closed?
I dunno since I'm not subscribed, but those at delorie.com are not very
active (1 month and 7 days since the last post). Perhaps I can beat Glenn
to reporting this news to that list ;)
Anyway, I think this was good. First of all M$ needs to pay up some money
(and that's always good). Secondly now they can sell out DR-DOS to someone
who wants to add something to it.
Caldera mostly fixed a few bugs and changed names a few times IMHO - but I
am grateful since otherwise I would probably still (almost 2 years after
first attempting) be trying to get Windows NT to work over the network ;)
Let's just hope that DR-DOS doesn't turn into something like Commodore or
AMIGA that's changing owners every six months.
//Bernie
http://hem1.passagen.se/bernie/index.htm DOS programs, Star Wars ...
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