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From: "Christoph Fuchs" <christoph DOT fuchs AT surfway DOT de>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: DR-DOS 7.05/7.04
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 20:59:48 +0200
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Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com

Hello everybody!
There is an email I wrote to Lineo:

>Hello!
>I tested EasyRecovery 5 (download trial version at www.ontrack.com) and I
>saw that this program works with the kernelfiles of dr-dos 7.05 (the
>command.com is 7.05, the ibm....com are 7.04).
>Will there be an update for home users, too? Will you continue the
>development of dr-dos? I thougt you would stop it (I wrote an e-mail long
>ago and I asked about the future of dr-dos). It would be great if you could
>continue the development or (I don't know if dr-dos is a big moneybringer
>for lineo, I'm only a happy user;-)) what do you think of releasing it
>under
>GPL? I'm sure there would be many hobby programmers (e.g. the freedos
>project
>at http://www.freedos.org) who could develop it further. I think DR-DOS is
>a wonderful os, please don't let it DIE!!!

Their answer is here:

>Christoph:
>
>I don't think that Lineo will necessarily let DR-DOS die, but I don't
>believe that the company will continue to upgrade the product. The
>company's primary focus right now is on embedded Linux. That is the OS that
>has the most interest right now and that will be the company's emphasis
>moving forward.

There will be no updates for homeusers!!!
>For the foreseeable future, 7.03 is it for right now.

so long,
Christoph

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