Mail Archives: opendos/2000/11/29/19:41:54
Well, with all this talk about DPMS, I decided to "dig around" my
cupboard for my DR-DOS 7.02 CD-ROM, to look at the DPMS
documentation ...
What I found in "\HTML\DPMS\01DPMS01.HTM" was the
statement : "You can supply the DPMS server with your
software for low royalty payments" ... :-(
So, it seems that the Novell 7 and OpenDOS 7.01 versions of
DPMS.EXE can be supplied with DPMS clients, free of royalties.
However, the same may not be true for Caldera/Lineo DR-DOS
7.02 (and, I presume, 7.03?) versions. Hence the title of this
message!!!
So ... can anybody answer the following :
1. Have Caldera/Lineo reversed their stand on royalties?
2. Do the DR-DOS 7.02 (and 7.03) versions of DPMS.EXE have
any advantage (eg. bug fixes), over the Novell 7 and
OpenDOS 7.01 versions of DPMS.EXE?
Joe.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthias Paul [SMTP:PAUL-MA AT reze-1 DOT rz DOT rwth-aachen DOT de]
> Sent: Thursday, 30 November 2000 2:26
> To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
> Subject: Re: DPMS info
>
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 Joe Da Silva wrote:
>
> > The DPMS programming manual is included on the standard
> > DR-DOS 7.02 (and, I expect, 7.03) CD-ROM.
> >
> > The DPMS programming info. (and applications notes) are
> > also available from Novell's web site (last time I checked,
> > anyway) ... just search the site for "DPMS".
>
> I had a look in the 1997 Caldera OpenDOS 7.01 DPMS book (from
> the SDK). It is stated in there as one of the advantages of DPMS,
> that "distributing the DPMS server with the clients" is in fact
> royalty-free.
>
> Thanks, Joe, for spotting this.
>
> Matthias
>
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