regarding the freedos store on zazzle is it better than cafepress.com? i choose cafepress for my 8bit ascii chart mouse pad, becuase they have good item editor and also give flash sale coupons .
-- -chris Computer Consultant & Repair Tech Digitalatoll Solutions Group Tawhaki Software http://digitalatoll.com/ http://tawakisoft.com/ Cell: 916-612-6904 On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 7:54 PM, Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> wrote: > It's nice that Microsoft released the MS-DOS source code, but this is not > "Free software." > > I agree with Ralf: neat for historical interest, but not useful in actual > practice. > > At the least, FreeDOS developers should not download and study the MS-DOS > source code. I gave that same warning a few years ago when some goofball > claimed to have released the source code to MS-DOS (I forget what version). > I never looked at it, so I don't know if this was true. Do not risk the > FreeDOS Project by examining this code and then contributing code to > FreeDOS. Developers who do that would likely do so with the best of > intentions (improving compatibility) but this just "taints" our codebase > with proprietary code. > > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 8:26 PM, dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 7:39 PM, Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On 3/25/2014 12:38 PM, dmccunney wrote: >> >> The question we won't know till we see it is the terms under which the >> >> source is released, and whether it may be used in derivative products. >> >> (In particular, is there anything in DOS 1.1 or 2.0 that might be >> >> incorporated into FreeDOS? I personally suspect not. It will be >> >> interesting to see what early DOS looked like internally.) >> >> > Well, the terms are all spelled out right there where you download the >> > files. It pretty much states that you can't really do anything with the >> > code or "derived work"... >> >> Pretty much what I expected. But given the age of the code and the >> state of development of MS-DOS 1.1 and 2.0, I'm not sure what could be >> done with it if the license *did* permit derivative works. I doubt >> any of it could be picked up and dropped into FreeDOS without major >> changes. It might give pointers on how to do some things differently, >> but I'm not sure "differently" == "better". >> >> This is neat for historical interest, but likely not useful in actual >> practice. >> >> > Ralf >> ______ >> Dennis >> https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book >> "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their >> applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, >> this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/13534_NeoTech >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedos-user mailing list >> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > >
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