Hi,
> It's a shame to let good software disappear because of copyright law, > esp. when the original copyright holders have no interest in hosting > it themselves. But it's very common (esp. for "legacy"). Especially since these are the drivers for the hardware, and are necessary for changing the cpu speed or display mode on certain models. Without these, there is no way to make those configuration changes. Could you post some of the documentation though? A lot of AST technical papers are already available at http://www.textfiles.com/computers/ASTRESEARCH/ On 12/19/2011 05:32 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, > I wish there was a good answer, but I don't know of one. > > FreeDOS has (AFAIK) only two "mirror" places, i.e. SourceForge > (OSI-approved stuff only??) and iBiblio ("mostly" public domain?? > though Jim is very heavily GPL-oriented). > > Does Garbo still accept contributions?? Even Simtel only accepts > things from the original copyright holder, sadly. Berlios is (IIRC) > similarly OSI-only. > > In other words, it's frustrating. I don't know what to tell you. My > own wimpy Google Sites page has stuff that I should probably move to > SourceForge, but other stuff is non-commercial only (e.g. D3X) and > abandoned, so I dunno what to do with such things. > > It's a shame to let good software disappear because of copyright law, > esp. when the original copyright holders have no interest in hosting > it themselves. But it's very common (esp. for "legacy"). > > > On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Jeffrey<ellsn...@aol.com> wrote: >> About a year and a half ago, the last website offering support for AST >> research computers went down. >> Because have an AST 80386, I downloaded all the drivers and files before >> that happened. Would it be legal >> for you to host them? AST is now defunct, and they had a large market share >> back in the day, >> so I'm sure many people would find them useful. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Write once. Port to many. > Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create > new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the > Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
