From:	jls11 AT po DOT CWRU DOT Edu (John L. Spetz)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: DJGPP: the future is... ?
Date:	31 Mar 1999 03:29:01 GMT
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In a previous article, bpmurray*STUFFER*@socrates.ucsf.edu (Bernard P. Murray, PhD) says:

>> SET: Why would OpenDOS not comply? I've had it on my old 386 for a long time,
>> and it loods good to me. I never got the sources, but I thought they were
>> available
>> for free. Has something happened regarding Caldera and OpenDOS?
>
>Yes.  They opened the sources very briefly and these were downloaded
>*many* times.  Caldera then did a quick U-turn (I think because they
>also realised that DOS was suitable for commercial use in embedded
>systems).  They now "give it away" in binary form only for non-commercial
>use only.  Thankfully they have reverted to calling it "DR DOS"
>as it is no longer "Open".
>     I've been using DR DOS since v5 (I currently run Novell DOS 7)
>and Caldera have not really done anything to it since acquiring it.
>Novell almost ruined it with the initial v7 release (buggy!) but
>the later updates (last was U15) cleaned it up nicely.

It would seem DR-DOS is still under development.  Actually DJ runs a
mailing list for discussion about it.  I understand Caldera has closed
a development facility in England and brought development to the US,
but beta versions are still being produced.  As I understand it they
have worked quite a bit on support for LFNs via a TSR and making the
memory manager more robust.  I have a copy of DR-DOS bundled with
OpenLinux 1.3 for use with DosEmu.

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