Hi Michael, >> Why on earth would you want to compile 17 year old stolen >> source code if you can just steal the pre-compiled Windows >> of your flatmate today? ;-) Or for example download MS DOS >> from a warez page etc etc. Not my taste, of course... ;-).
> Well, compiling makes indeed no point until the copyright cleared. I doubt that MS will ever give you an official okay. Imagine somebody stole your EC card and waits for a few years for a message from you that it is okay to use it for his goals ;-) On the other hand, MS does not spend much time for hunting and removing downloads of illegal copies of DOS floppies now so if you do not care about law anyway, you can easily find and install MS DOS without having to mess with compilers. > But you can use ms-dos source code as a reference to get freedos > finally compatible with ms-dos as it's one of the goals. A goal reached by illegal means is not really reached in my opinion. If the priority of MS DOS compatibility is higher than the priority of law, stealing MS DOS install disks is a much easier way to reach the goal than stealing sources and putting them or things learned from them into FreeDOS. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
