On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 05:30, Jim Hall wrote: > Wesley Parish wrote: > > There was a thread on getting writers and maintainers of old retired DOS > > software to release it as Open Source and I've lost track of it, > > otherwise I would be continuing it. My bad. > > > > What I want to ask is, has anyone approached Borland about the > > possibility of releasing their DOS compiler and database products as Open > > Source? I've considered doing it myself, but I don't know just who I > > should contact. > > > > Any ideas, brickbats? > > > > Wesley Parish > > At least in the case of TC when that got posted in Borland's Museum > site, I had emailed someone at Borland, and received a generic "no", > with a followup suggesting that the sources to TC weren't available > anymore. One assumes they were purged.
Pity. I guess that settles that then. > > I haven't gone back to ask about BC3.1, which was my favorite DOS > compiler for a very, very long time. May as well. They can only say no. And TP, if - again - the sources are still extant. > > -jh Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ------------- Mau ki ana, he aha te mea nui? You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku ki ana, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
