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From:	"Da Silva, Joe" <Joe DOT DaSilva AT emailmetering DOT com>
To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	RE: Greed (was DPMS info)
Date:	Fri, 1 Dec 2000 17:07:46 +1100
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BTW, when I said "reversed their stand", I meant *again*
(after DR-DOS 7.02) ... that is, perhaps Caldera/Lineo
"came to their senses" later? ...

As for Novell's versions of DPMS.EXE, I have never heard
of them asking for royalties for this - it just doesn't
make sense for them to - they wanted to encourage people
to use DPMS. So, AFAIK, *any* Novell version of DPMS.EXE
can be distributed free of royalties with client app's.
I'm sure the OpenDOS 7.01 royalty-free policy is simply
a continuation of Novell's policy for DPMS (until greed
made Caldera/Lineo change this, a bit later).

So, what remains to be determined is either :
1. Have Caldera/Lineo "reversed their stand" (see above)?
2. If not, are the last Novell version or the OpenDOS
   7.01 version satisfactory?

Joe.

____
| From: Matthias Paul
| To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
| Cc: 
| Sent: 30 November, 2000 11:57 PM
| Subject: RE: Greed (was DPMS info)
| 
| 
| 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| original DPMS 1.0 (which is *really* outdated), not 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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