Hello. On 26-01-2015 21:06, Ralf Quint wrote: > DOS existed and had its high times well before "Open Source" became > fashionable, with fairly little of "real" DOS based/targeting > compilers/interpreters/development environments ever being released as > such. The question is not about fashion, but about freedom, about where the resources of a Free (Liber)/Opensource Software project should be applied, about conviction, etc.. People are in some occasions switching to FLOSS nowadays because of peer pressure, but even if it didn't exists the importance of FLOSS would be the same. > If you are limiting the project the way you intend, you are pretty > much cutting the lifeline for FreeDOS by having to rely on oversized > compilers which where designed and developed with Windows/Linux in > mind and are only marginally backported or still providing real DOS > target support. May I? I think you are getting Jim Hall's objection wrong. Certainly no one has the authority to forbid anyone from using proprietary software, but what was being commented was the criteria for including a program in FreeDOS, or for having the project's resources endorsing it (as it would happen by including the program in the Software List (gratis publicity, anyone?)).
If the project is manifested has something that is here to be combatible with MS-DOS, this in itself expresses it's commitement to run the compiled forms of DOS software in general, be it Free (as in freedom) or proprietary. Michael Brutman wrote: > This is a slippery slope. While I don't use Turbo C anymore for mTCP, > I did use it and still use it for smaller projects. It is commercial > but readily available for little money and it does not have any > royalty encumbrances. Some people avoid using proprietary software altogether, even if it's freeware. If a free OS project says that use case X is fullfilled by installing program Y which is not free software (or depends on a non-free compiler), then some people may be inclined to consider that that project relies on non-free software. JJ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming. The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
