Hi Rugxulo, you are not going to make Jack any more kind by publicly sharing all private email details of your private fight...
Jack does update drivers because he is a perfectionist, but he is also known for not liking the FreeDOS community (including in particular you) so it is no surprise that he fails to make nice announcements, share sources, etc. ... which is why almost everybody here stopped to care. I, too found it a bit silly that there even was a license, and for a while even code, for preventing FreeDOS use of the drivers. The "hack" problem was for one of the closed source releases: Somebody used a debugger to deobfuscate that driver to remove machine code which had deliberately made the driver unusable on FreeDOS. You cannot STEAL free software indeed but you can upset authors by spoiling their ability to upset users :-p So yes, you can call it a HACK. Note that this was many years ago, long forgotten by many. So what should I say? We already know everything about the situation. There is no point in reiterating again and again that fights between humans keep machines from enjoying nice drivers here, as this is not going to change that anyway. Cheers, Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
