On Sat, May 1, 2021 at 5:17 PM Thomas Desi <t...@mttw.at> wrote: > > Hi Dennis, I *love* your TextEditors.org site! Thanks for your work!
Thank you. I don't believe the site is high volume, but I don't care. Every once in a while I get an email from someone thanking me because TextEdiors provided info or a download for something they had been looking for for a long time. I smile happily.,. That's why I maintain the site and what makes it with doing. > Coincidentally, I was just this moment browsing > http://www.lanet.lv/simtel.net/msdos/editor-pre.html > and it looks like all are broken links. Likely because Simtel.net no longer exists. I can usually find the stuff in other repositories, but I don't know I have to till someone like you points it out Keeping links updated is an ongoing challenge I haven't usually got the time to devote to. My reference was simply explaining my thinking about licenses. I want editors to be available. I don't *care* what the license is. What the user does because of a license is up to them. I don't get to tell them what to do, and *shouldn't*.. > -Thomas > > NB: Some authors of an earlier era still living up to the idea that holding > the software and/or source or sort-of-registration-process/registration fee > etc. might still yield some income. Software market dynamics have changed so > much since then (1990ies, DOS times) that more is lost then free the software > at least for archives to study, try, play or even work with it. Most of it is > of little commercial use on a large scale. (This should/could be read in the > light of the »FSF« ideas, too.) If there are authors still attempting to monetize their work, and are still actively supporting it when the user buys a license, I'm thrilled. I simply see a need for Freedos users to *find* them, starting from the Freedos page. Fine by me if that location isn't on Ibiblio, but there needs to be a pointer *from* the Freedos site to where it is. > Maybe it would need a broader manifesto about this issue and distributed in > time before most of it is lost in digital oblivion? (See editor-list above > and many many other sites/links) Possible. I am all about preserving software and data like this. I am *not* fussy about the method. I am only concerned that it *works.* ______ Dennis _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
