Hi, On Wed, Jul 31, 2024 at 3:28 PM Jim Hall via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > ..I saw "Twilight was a physical collection of illegal software and > games." So I haven't heard about THF because I don't deal in "illegal > software and games." (I think this is what used to be called "warez" - > also mentioned in the link below.) I also saw this link with more > information: > https://twilight-cd.com/ > > >>Twilight was the longest running illegal software series in the > >>Netherlands, with the largest sales market. The collection was released > >>from 1996 to 2004 and blossomed into a huge success and cash cow. Over the > >>years, Twilight has changed from a hobby project by a bunch of computer > >>nerds to a (as it seems) rock-solid underground organization. > >> > >>In eight years, one hundred and eighty discs with “apps and games” > >>were produced, which were sold privately from factory to end user.
I'm not that naive, but it seems pointless when Free operating systems like GNU / Linux (and FreeDOS!) already existed. Heck, even shareware is (usually) better than warez. Last I heard, the Netherlands is lax on downloads (but not uploads), so it's not necessarily "illegal" to download things. On a vaguely similar note, I think (communist??) Poland in the '80s also had a lot of "warez" scenes and shared software, probably due to blockades or sanctions or whatever There is also a Wikipedia article: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_(warez) _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
