On Jue 02 Jun 2011 03:42:04 Willi Wasser escribió:
> > Some developers may not be too happy
> > about the license choice, especially
> > those who would like to grab your code
> > and try to make money from it by making
> > it part of an unfree software.
> 
> Let's be serious! Is there still a market for any kind of DOS out there?
> Does it have any commercial value out there? Can you still make such an
> amount of money with it, that it's worth to struggle about licensing
> issues?

Backward compatibility. In some places wich I am doing maintainance, they want 
to keep they old-but useful-and-rock-solid software. It runs in DOS.

In my case, I'm using it with dosemu in Linux, but it clearly has made my life 
quite happy, as I don't have to fight with Windows issues.

-- 
"Los promotores del software privativo demonizan algo tan básico y ético como
el hecho de compartir imponiendo términos como el de 'pirata'. Equiparan
ayudar al prójimo con atacar barcos. Cuando me preguntan qué pienso de la
piratería musical e informática digo que atacar barcos es muy malo y,
que yo sepa, los piratas no usan computadoras.”
  Richard Stallman, 05/11/2008, anexo de la Cámara de Diputados, Argentina

Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
http://perezmeyer.com.ar/
http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/

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