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From: "Willy J. Hoogstraten" <w DOT j DOT hoogstraten AT hccnet DOT nl>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 23:23:20 +0200
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Subject: Re: OpenDos restrictions (was: Re: change in mailing lists)
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Hi,

On Wed, 24 May 2000 15:37:05 +0100, Matthias Paul wrote:

> 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 :-(

> 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...

Maybe it's still possible to purchase a licenced copy of DR-DOS.
But here in The Netherlands, there's only one address, which I never
contacted yet, because Lineo doesn't offer support at the moment
and I don't like "hunting and searching" for registering a product.

> snip
> 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.

I don't totally agree with this. I hope a commercial company will
continue the development. I don't believe in customer support if
it's GPL-ed (or some other kind of open source). But if somebody
will support DR-DOS (or whatever it will be called), I'll be glad
if I can support him/her/them (I'm interested in both private and
commercial use).


-- Best regards,
-- Willy J. Hoogstraten.
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