Hi all!
Looking at the links provided by TK Chia and in Jim's blog, Stallman has (and caused) a real problem, so I agree that he should not be in that new powerful position he now got. And I do not think that this is cancel culture censoring unpopular thoughts. He can share his thoughts as much as he wants *without* being a sexist FSF leader. Sure, none of his controversial comments were illegal. But reading the various comments, it was really painful for women to have him as superior, which makes him unfit for the job if FSF is as noble as they want to be. Maybe being rude was good for the fight against MS, but that is unrelated. He can work for FSF as expert without being board member. As mentioned, see for example https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2021-March/235161.html https://selamjie.medium.com/remove-richard-stallman-appendix-a-a7e41e784f88 https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~lazowska/mit/ etc. Now about Michael's off-topic relative to this thread: Also, why does everybody want a free Windows? You can use free alternatives such as Linux, optionally with Wine if you need to keep some Windows compatibility. Or even work on making ReactOS more useful. None of those involves any strange arguments about why stealing Windows would be OK. Why would we want a FreeDOS variant which drops support for BIOS disks? Floppy, IDE, SATA, USB and other stuff you mention? If you have no BIOS, install an UEFI CSM as part of your boot chain to replace it. If you neither have a CSM nor want to help with creating one, run DOS in a generic PC emulator of your choice or in DOSEMU2. Same for possible lack of VGA compatibility in new graphics cards and their BIOS. People have written TSR to resolve some of the BIOS issues for DOS, like missing 8x14 fonts. Also, it is still reasonably easy to get hardware for your FreeDOS install with a totally normal BIOS, so why would you want to make a statement by dropping support for it?? What is the problem with GRUB 1 or 2? And what is your EFI problem? Linux needs almost no help from firmware and is able to boot from either BIOS or EFI based computers now. You can use secure boot with Linux, too, as distros make signed kernels, or you disable it in your BIOS settings if you want full freedom to boot anything of your choice. I guess only Blue Ray media players will hate you for it. There are so many possibilities. Nothing wrong with running DOS in a virtual PC on your ARM smartphone. Well, I hope you have an app to connect a real keyboard. But I really see no reason why you could want a DOS for ARM first, for example. > ReactOS by the way in VirtualBox on CentOS 8 is stable enough that > you can play Warcraft II Battle.Net edition all the way through :-) Regards, Eric _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
