On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Paul M. Foster wrote: > On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Geoffrey L. Brimhall wrote: > > Aside from the technical issues of having Linux use windows device drivers > > (such as the video card drivers), are there any legal reasons why a person > > could not use the device drivers written for the MS Windows operating > > system ? > > I suspect there *is* a legal issue here. If you buy MS Windows, you > install the device drivers on your system as part of the software. (I > haven't checked MS's license, but they may have a license like "You can > use it, but we still own it.") But the software is still part of the > Windows operating system. I don't think you can go out and program your > own "Windows clone" operating system and then use a bunch of Windows > drivers off their distribution. Microsoft would be understandably irate > about this. And even if it wasn't a legal issue, if Microsoft wanted to > hassle you about it, you'd be just as beat up as if they'd sued you. >
So what about using MS-DOS drivers with FreeDos (http://www.freedos.org)? Wojtek Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED]
