Eric Auer schrieb: > Hi Michael, > >>> Why on earth would you want to compile 17 year old stolen >>> source code if you can just steal the pre-compiled Windows >>> of your flatmate today? ;-) Or for example download MS DOS >>> from a warez page etc etc. Not my taste, of course... ;-). > >> Well, compiling makes indeed no point until the copyright cleared. > > I doubt that MS will ever give you an official okay. Imagine > somebody stole your EC card and waits for a few years for a > message from you that it is okay to use it for his goals ;-)
I am sure that in 100 till 1 billion years (if humans sill exist then) the copyright will be finally gone. Or will we have a newsline then "FreeDOS developer stolen ms-dos source code and now in prison"? > On the other hand, MS does not spend much time for hunting > and removing downloads of illegal copies of DOS floppies now > so if you do not care about law anyway, you can easily find > and install MS DOS without having to mess with compilers. Here are very bad news for you. You are violating the law so often in your life. There is so many law text concerning you and you can never memorize everything and while you are just living you can not have all the laws still in back mind, that's impossible. And if you try to follow the law of more then the country in which you life then it will become even more impossible. For an doctor everyone is a sick person, he just needs to look clone enough on it and for an lawyer also every person is guiltily, he also just needs to look clone enough on it. >> But you can use ms-dos source code as a reference to get freedos >> finally compatible with ms-dos as it's one of the goals. > > A goal reached by illegal means is not really reached in my > opinion. It's still questionable if it's illegal. How can we finally prove that it's illegal or not? Well, two questions to you. 1) Which kind of punishment to you expect for downloading the ms-dos source code? 2) What kind of punishment wouldn't still hurt you? http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Hacker-Paragraf-Verfahren-gegen-iX-Chefredakteur-eingestellt--/meldung/134306 After reading this article I had an funny idea. > If the priority of MS DOS compatibility is higher > than the priority of law, stealing MS DOS install disks is > a much easier way to reach the goal than stealing sources > and putting them or things learned from them into FreeDOS. You pretend as in FreeDOS is no knowledge which has been "robbed" from MS-DOS. (rob = stealing with violence or menace, theft = the original object is lost and in hands of the thief only) -mr ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
