Re: [Freedos-user] AST driver problem...

2011-12-25 Thread dmccunney
On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Ralf A. Quint wrote: > At 05:03 PM 12/22/2011, dmccunney wrote: >>I repeat, be careful of *what*?  If you get as C&D letter from them, >>you take it down and apologize.  You needn't hire a lawyer or engage >>in a resource-requiring defense.  Such letters are warnin

Re: [Freedos-user] AST driver problem...

2011-12-25 Thread Ralf A. Quint
At 05:03 PM 12/22/2011, dmccunney wrote: >I repeat, be careful of *what*? If you get as C&D letter from them, >you take it down and apologize. You needn't hire a lawyer or engage >in a resource-requiring defense. Such letters are warning shots. >*They* would as soon not *take* you to court. Tha

Re: [Freedos-user] AST driver problem...

2011-12-22 Thread dmccunney
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 7:18 PM, James Hall wrote: > On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 6:11 PM, dmccunney wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 6:48 PM, James Hall wrote: >> >>> It's not an ideal situation for these old drivers, but we need to be >>> careful here. And I'll admit that I'm not sufficiently moti

Re: [Freedos-user] AST driver problem...

2011-12-22 Thread James Hall
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 6:11 PM, dmccunney wrote: > On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 6:48 PM, James Hall wrote: > >> It's not an ideal situation for these old drivers, but we need to be >> careful here. And I'll admit that I'm not sufficiently motivated to >> comb through all the driver zip files (I assum

Re: [Freedos-user] AST driver problem...

2011-12-22 Thread dmccunney
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 6:48 PM, James Hall wrote: > It's not an ideal situation for these old drivers, but we need to be > careful here. And I'll admit that I'm not sufficiently motivated to > comb through all the driver zip files (I assume zip) and read all the > Readme & License files, just to

Re: [Freedos-user] AST driver problem...

2011-12-22 Thread James Hall
>>But according to Wikipedia >>as of early 2011, the dormant AST trademark appears to be being >>relaunched by a new, independent company named DATA ACCESS based in >>France. I don't know if that means they purchased the previous >>copyrights (Beny Alagem

Re: [Freedos-user] AST driver problem...

2011-12-22 Thread Ralf A. Quint
At 03:48 PM 12/22/2011, James Hall wrote: >Mirroring "abandonware" drivers is a bit uncertain - unless the >license says we can redistribute them. I agree the original copyright >holder probably doesn't care; they've gone out of business. It's highly unlikely that there is any license of any "down

Re: [Freedos-user] AST driver problem...

2011-12-22 Thread James Hall
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Michael Robinson > wrote: >> There has been quite a bit of talk about AST hardware needing special >> drivers even under DOS.  Well, if the company won't put the drivers in >> the public domain and there a

Re: [Freedos-user] AST driver problem...

2011-12-21 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Michael Robinson wrote: > There has been quite a bit of talk about AST hardware needing special > drivers even under DOS.  Well, if the company won't put the drivers in > the public domain and there aren't very many AST computers in the world, > the logical th

[Freedos-user] AST driver problem...

2011-12-19 Thread Michael Robinson
There has been quite a bit of talk about AST hardware needing special drivers even under DOS. Well, if the company won't put the drivers in the public domain and there aren't very many AST computers in the world, the logical thing to do is recycle the ones that are left and replace them. Am I mis