Hi Michael, > "FreeDOS developer stolen ms-dos source code and now in prison"?
That not, but for example "China DOS" seems to be a rip of Win98 DOS so they often have to change their homepage and I never saw them in a commercial product. While FreeDOS is used for things like mainboard CDs, industrial printers, public transport ticket vending and similar "close to hardware / small PC" stuff... > Here are very bad news for you. You are violating > the law so often in your life. Yeah but why should I steal software when there are more than 10000 free programs available for Linux and other open source systems, including FreeDOS? Sure, maybe there are only 1000 GNU apps ported to DOS yet (look at the DJGPP homepage) but this is still a lot of software for 0 Euro, even legal :-). > It's still questionable if it's illegal. > How can we finally prove that it's illegal or not? By reading any law book you can probably find out that company secrets are not open for free use ;-) Even if it was somebody else who leaked them first. > 1) Which kind of punishment to you expect for > downloading the ms-dos source code? It would become unacceptable for others to let me spread stolen information by adding things based on that information to free software projects. It is obvious that I would immediately delete such files because I prefer the open source world and not the criminal world to sit on my computer. > 2) What kind of punishment wouldn't still hurt you? I do not understand the question... And you do not seem to understand open source, if I may say that. www.heise.de/newsticker/Hacker-Paragraf-Verfahren-gegen-iX-Chefredakteur-eingestellt--/meldung/134306 Pretty unrelated news - Somebody protested against making software to check for security holes illegal by blaming himself of being a criminal because he is a security expert. There is a difference between using software to check for security holes as part of your job and with permission of those checked and stealing software with "permission" only of yourself. > 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) Nice that you enjoy laughing about possible legal loopholes but I would have preferred you to work for open source instead of explaining us why it is better to steal than to work... ;-). Alas it is a bit too late now - how can we know whether the "help" you offer is not just copy and paste? Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
