On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 5:56 PM, geneb <ge...@deltasoft.com> wrote: > On Thu, 19 Apr 2018, dmccunney wrote: > >> Best case, you get what Embarcadero once did. They inherited the >> former Borland DOS products like Turbo-C, and were offering them as >> unsupported freeware downloads from a community link on their site. >> There was no *paying* market for the DOS stuff, but making it >> available was a nice gesture and good publicity for the Windows based >> stuff they could *sell*. > > This was actually done by Borland, long before the stand-alone tools > division (CodeGear) was created, let alone sold to Embarcadero.
Hmmm. True, and thanks for the correction. Embarcadero simply carried on the practice. But the point stands. I don't see a *paying* market for DOS software, but Corel might be convinced to make it available as unsupported freeware. Source code is nice, but not a magic bullet. The vast majority of folks who grab open source software want the compiled binaries so they can *run* them. The number of folks who are *able* to fix bugs and add features because they have the source is a very tiny fraction of the number of folks who will actually use the programs. If Jim can convince Corel to offer source uinder a license that will let him add it the the FreeDOS distribution, I'll be surprised and delighted. If anyone actually grabs that source, and uploads new and improved versions incorporating changes they made to the source, I'll be astonished. Having it available under a compatible open source license will let Jim make it available as part of FreeDOS. Having it available as Freeware gives folks something they can *do* with FreeDOS, which may be more important. > g. ______ Dennis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
