if you are complaining at me, that's OK. I can handle it. my purpose in
creating a distribution was to basically incorporate my DOS software toolset. I
can always drop my dos versions of stuff if people are just plain opposed to it
- things for me are hard enough as it is with not being able to compile any dos
items anymore. 50 some-odd utilities I spent years developing and perfecting.
unfortunately, it looks like it's going to be a while before I can even do
that, since the cygwin version of djgpp which I need (I get my compiler from
delorie.com) to compile stuff on x64 windows is in pre-alpha stage.
I am still going over the legalities of selling under the GPL license. it looks
like it's allowed for according to the GPL license FAQ (maybe getting confused
with a post), and commercial stuff is allowed with LGPL. but I want to make
sure of what forms of selling are allowed - I see selling of license exceptions
like oracle does are encouraged, and selling of media is allowed, but not sure
about anything else because I forget that easy.
I do like the fact that so many software items are available for freedos. it
makes freedos more usable. imagine if you had no cdrom drivers for instance,
and no eltorito... you could not even get off the ground without a floppy which
is nearly extinct, and you would need about 38+ floppies if you had a library
of programs, and you would HOPE things fit.
try being thankful? not sure exactly what you are aiming for - minimalism?
>________________________________
> From: Charles Belhumeur <[email protected]>
>To: Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers.
><[email protected]>
>Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2014 3:26 PM
>Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos.img - spoke too soon
>
>
>Hate to complain, but, you people are letting this initiative get away
>from you like what happened to LINUX. Too many bits and pieces
>cobbled together from here and there without the code writers knowing
>enough about what the bits and pieces all do. And too many
>distributions that confuse potential users about which one to use.
>LINUX is as sorry an OS as Windows now, big, piggy and glitchy with no
>one on the planet knowing exactly what all the bits and pieces are
>doing, how they're interacting etc..
>
>Don't tell me you have LINUX bits in FreeDos! I've seen some evidence
>of this. If you have to borrow from them to write an OS as simple as
>DOS then you're not up to the task and shouldn't bother. You're just
>spoiling the whole initiative, wasting your time and you'll end up
>withing nothing better than Windows or LINUX and quite likely
>something worse nobody wants.
>
>Given the above and what I've read in this forum I've kinda lost
>interest in FreeDos.
>
>Charlie B.
>
>
>
>On 1/18/14, Louis Santillan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I think it's worth mentioning that Bryan Lunduke has a FreeDOS distro,
>> called LunDOS, with OpenGEM, a web browser. He uses it to develop
>> Linux Tycoon for DOS. He distributes it as VirtualBox images and QEMU
>> images. He posted that a 2.0 revamp was coming but nothing turned up
>> yet.
>>
>> (scant) Info page
>> <http://lunduke.com/2013/05/30/announcing-lundos/>
>>
>> Download page
>> <http://lunduke.com/how-to-contribute/>
>>
>> -L
>>
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