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From: cigna AT helios DOT phy DOT OhioU DOT Edu (Dave Cigna)
Subject: Re: What's all the hype about OpenDOS
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Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 13:25:04 GMT
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DR. Andras Solyom <solyom AT eik DOT bme DOT hu> wrote:
>But I am a little bit sceptical about OpenDOS's future. It is too late
>now for DOS. Like it or not the dominance of DOS was a result of
>Microsoft's and IBM's software strategy. Now everyone (except us...)
>wants to use some version of Windows.

Which, no doubt,  is exactly the reason that Caldera is giving it away 
for free. I expect that they know it has a limited future and don't
want to become involved in supporting it commercially. It's interesting
though, that they're going to any effort at all to prepare it and make 
it available. It would be easier to put everything in a store room and 
let it collect dust.

 -- Dave Cigna