Re: [Freedos-devel] Microsoft source code

2004-02-17 Thread Gregory Pietsch
This is in regard to referring to "leaked" M$-DOS v6 source code. Richard Stallman wrote in the GNU Coding Standards: Don't in any circumstances refer to Unix source code for or during your work on GNU! (Or to any other proprietary programs.) If you have a vague recollection of the internals o

Re: [Freedos-devel] Microsoft source code

2004-02-17 Thread Steve Nickolas
At Tue, 17 Feb 2004 3:13pm +0200, Luchezar Georgiev wrote: > On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 15:32:27 -0600, Jim Hall wrote: > > > We've actually addressed this issue before. Some years ago, the > > source code to MS-DOS was leaked. For a while, I would get about an > > email a week from people (who probab

Re: [Freedos-devel] Microsoft source code

2004-02-17 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 15:32:27 -0600, Jim Hall wrote: We've actually addressed this issue before. Some years ago, the source code to MS-DOS was leaked. For a while, I would get about an email a week from people (who probably thought they were being helpful) asking if I wanted access to the Microso

[Freedos-devel] Microsoft source code

2004-02-16 Thread Jim Hall
I hope I don't start a flame war on this. Thought I'd fwd this note that I found on the Groklaw site, usually a good resource for legal issues dealing with Free and Open Source Software. You've probably all seen by now that (part of) the source code to Microsoft's WindowsNT and Windows2000 has