On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 10:57 AM Martin Iturbide <martiniturb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi > > I'm new here. I'm part of the ArcaOS, eComStation and OS/2 Warp community > called OS2World.com. Even that we are different communities and different > operating systems, we have a group of people that have interest in > different DOS software apps since OS/2 has its DOS VDM (and Win-OS2). > > I had been contacting OS/2 developers that no longer support their > software and asked them to open source their software. Sometime I have > luck, sometimes not, but I have been consolidating the source code on > Github for some years now. > https://github.com/os2world > > 1) I was wondering if in the DOS or FreeDOS community had been any similar > effort. > > We don't have something like this for all the formerly-proprietary applications that have released their code as open source. But there haven't been many of those, unfortunately. I contact companies every few months to ask about releasing the source code to their old DOS products. The answer is too often "No" - mostly because they do not have the full sources to the old DOS product they stopped maintaining in the mid-to-late 1990s. A few times the "No" was because they knew (or suspected) the DOS application used licensed 3rd party stuff and they didn't want to go through the effort to clean it up and remove the 3rd party stuff - too much risk for no reward. When the answer is "No" I instead ask if they will release the program as "free/gratis" software, like TRIUS did with As-Easy-As spreadsheet. Sometimes they are willing to do that. We used to have a central source hub for many FreeDOS projects, long ago, but the coordination between developers kind of dwindled as some folks dropped off and others picked up code, and we don't have a central source code hub anymore. Which is unfortunate. > 2) I also want to know if there some sites or a general community site > like a wiki with a catalog of open source, close source, new, old DOS > software. I know there are several sites of DOS games, but it seem there > are no much sites that their goal is to have the DOS applications catalog. > > For example I have one created for but OS/2 on a MediaWiki > (https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Software) > > That's a very comprehensive wiki catalog of OS/2 applications! I should create a similar catalog on the FreeDOS wiki. We also use MediaWiki there. > @FreeDOS on twitter recommended me this link: > https://www.freedos.org/links/ > But I can not find the catalog of the crazy people that want to include > all DOS possible :) > > I am the person behind @freedos_project :-) > My interest is OS/2 but I want to know if there are some similar efforts > on the DOS community to see if we can join some efforts. > > I'm very interested in joining efforts! As you say, there's a lot of overlap between DOS and OS/2, we should definitely do more together. If you like, you can follow up with me via email. Or we can continue discussing here. Jim
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