Hi. Thanks for the feedback.
Jim, if the FreeDOS MediaWiki can also be used to create the DOS software catalog, I will help from time to time. I can try to make pages for: - Software - Authors - Companies For the Software pages I will do a similar categorization (subcategories) like the OS2World wiki. ( https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Software) Also maybe making a wiki template for applications with general information. Let me know if it can be possible. Regards On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 10:56 PM Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> wrote: > > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > -- Martín Itúrbide http://www.os2world.com mar...@os2world.com martiniturb...@gmail.com Quito - Ecuador
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