From: "Matthias Paul" Organization: Rechenzentrum RWTH Aachen To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 15:37:05 +0100 Subject: Re: OpenDos restrictions (was: Re: change in mailing lists) X-mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.22 Message-ID: <38C7FDE6751@reze-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de> Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com On 2000-05-23 "Willy J. Hoogstraten" wrote: > I wish I could. In august 1999, I tried to register DR-DOS 7.03 for > personal use. It was not possible anymore :-( Interesting. Doesn't Caldera *Systems* Inc. (now back on http://www.caldera.com) still offer it in their electronic shop any more? Last time I visited them a few weeks ago, they still had DR-DOS 7.03 there. At least in Germany you can still order it via Linuxland (probably http://www.linuxland.de) for 70,- DEM. Well, they only seem to sell the CD issue there, not the System Builder Kit with all the printed books, kernel sources, and tools for embedding... Well, I don't know if registering NOW will make a difference any more... The EDC operation where DR-DOS was actually developed at Caldera UK Ltd., Andover, was closed in 02/1999 immediately after the DR-DOS 7.03 and the DR-WebSpyder 2.1 release. It seems we just have to pray and wait until Caldera Inc. and Lineo Inc. (the former Caldera Thin Clients Inc.) will hopefully open the DR-DOS sources for the benefit of all (IMHO including themselfs). Maybe it would be better to save the money until that fine day - to support those who will then continue DR-DOS development and probably have limited resources. Matthias ------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthias Paul, Ubierstrasse 28, D-50321 Bruehl, Germany eMail: Web : http://www.rhrz.uni-bonn.de/~uzs180/mpdokeng.html -------------------------------------------------------------------