Mail Archives: opendos/2000/11/30/07:58:45
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 Joe Da Silva wrote:
> 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.
It's probably the same for 7.03.
> 1. Have Caldera/Lineo reversed their stand on royalties?
Seems so. :-( They have changed alot in philosophy in late 1998
and in 1999, unfortunately...
> 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?
Yes, they have. I can look them up. The Novell offer refers to the
original DPMS 1.0 (which is *really* outdated), not the Novell DOS 7
update 15.2 DPMS (was it 1.43???). The OpenDOS 7.01 DPMS probably
was something 1.3x or 1.4x, I don't know by heart. DR-DOS 7.02+
ships with DPMS 1.44.
Matthias
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