-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/20/06 10:38, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2006-12-02 16:14:58, schrieb Douglas Tutty: >> I've only done it once and that was on my new Asus M2N-SLI that has a >> bios utility built right in to allow you to save the bios and update a >> new one. No dos required at all, just the bios image on a floppy or USB >> stick (or on a MS partition on a hard drive). >> >> However, for my friend Justin Case, I still have dos 6.3. I used dd to >> create floppy images and can make them whenever I need to. >> Unfortunatly, since 6.3 isn't public domain, I can't email it to you. >> >> When _does_ the licence on things like an old dos floppy expire or is it >> like Shakespear, 100 years after IBM (its IBM dos) dies? > > There was already a juridical discusion about WfW 3.11 and Win95 on the > Internet andm according to the US Law, the rights for software expires > if THE manufacturer stop selling it and does not more do support for it > (this excludes documentations, e.g. the M$ Knowledgebase) > > Which meanm you can Distribute all versions of MS-Dos and Windows up to > Win95 freely.
*Absolutely* *NOT*. http://sciencefictionobserver.blogspot.com/2006/12/usa-legalizes-abandonware.html http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1267 More importantly, copyright law still lies behind all of these exemptions. What this means is that you can no longer be sued under the DMCA for circumventing the copy protection on your own 5-1/4" disk or Super Famicon game cartridge in order to transfer the data to your computer--but copyright law probably still prohibits you from distributing that file to other people. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFiW69S9HxQb37XmcRAtUVAKDjPudMSrwEHMJ5yzOp88RgvXg/1wCgyd6/ o8C5fXzXdTifIHbs6hrq/W0= =gYpv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
