Yes I would purchase their updates; I already have most of their stuff and use.it. They were a cut above the rest of the dos software and I think they still have users out there. I have MS Word 6 for dos; what a real piece of junk.. I wouldn't expect big dos sales but I think their fans would be after it but not big time. Wordperfert 6.2 had alot of advanced features that you wouldn't expect to see in dos like the matheditor I use qpro alot; I like to tease my brother in law that I use turbodos for taxes He's like you only wants the latest MS junk.
DS .. On Thu, 19 Apr 2018 17:48:13 -0400 dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> writes: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 2:12 PM, Dale E Sterner <sunbeam...@juno.com> > wrote: > > I wouldn't expect them to ever release the source but > > to put it back on the market for sale, like it use to be. > > Not everthing can be open and free. If you tell them you > > have a million downloads they may feel there is once > > again a viable market for their product and will sell > > and upgrade their dos line. I thing that Corel still has > > alot of dos fans out there. I think alot of people miss > > the simplicity and practicality of dos. Don't expect the > > world to be completely free. DOS isn't worth much > > without high quality software to run on it > > I wouldn't expect release of source, either, though it would be > nice. > But neither would I expect release for sale. Who would *buy* it? > DOS > has been dead for years, and I doubt there would be enough paying > customers to make sales worth the while. Actually *selling* stuff > involves costs to be *able* to sell it, and unless you are confident > of a decent sales volume, it's not worth doing. > > Yes, FreeDOS 1.1 has gotten a million downloads, but that, by > itself, > is meaningless. How many of the downloaders actually installed it, > and on what? How many are actually using it, and what are they > doing > with it if they are? (My own bet is that most actually using it are > doing do to play old DOS games *native*, not use stuff like WP or > QPro.) > > 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*. > > > cheers > > DS. > ______ > 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 > ******************************************************>>>> >From Dale Sterner - MS organic chemistry http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jo00975a052 *******************************************************>>>> ____________________________________________________________ How To "Remove" Dark Spots Gundry MD http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/5adb825ff054f25f683dst02duc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
