From:	"Florian Xaver" <dos DOT fire AT aon DOT at>
To:	<opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	future
Date:	Tue, 22 Feb 2000 16:06:02 +0100
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Hi!

Somebody from Lineo wrote me:

Due to a patent that Microsoft has on the creation of Long File Names, we
cannot release the utility that we developed, and the FAT32 driver is only
for OEM use due to the support costs involved.  We cannot release DR DOS to
GPL because we are still making money from it and it is still a viable
commercial product.  Until the day comes that it is no longer valuable to
it, we will continue to sell it as is.
DR DOS was never GPLed under Novell, and we had to discontinue providing the
source because it gave us a competitive disadvantage that our competitors
were able to exploit.
Sorry for the bad news.
....


I think, this says all, Dr-DOS die.... :-((

Bye, Florian Xaver

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