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From: "Da Silva, Joe" <Joe DOT DaSilva AT emailmetering DOT com>
To: "'opendos AT delorie DOT com'" <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: Greed (was DPMS info)
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 11:44:55 +1100
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Well, with all this talk about DPMS, I decided to "dig around" my
cupboard for my DR-DOS 7.02 CD-ROM, to look at the DPMS
documentation ...

What I found in "\HTML\DPMS\01DPMS01.HTM" was the
statement : "You can supply the DPMS server with your
software for low royalty payments" ...    :-(

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. Hence the title of this
message!!!

So ... can anybody answer the following :

1. Have Caldera/Lineo reversed their stand on royalties?
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?

Joe.


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Matthias Paul [SMTP:PAUL-MA AT reze-1 DOT rz DOT rwth-aachen DOT de]
> Sent:	Thursday, 30 November 2000 2:26
> To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
> Subject:	Re: DPMS info
> 
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 Joe Da Silva wrote:
> 
> > The DPMS programming manual is included on the standard
> > DR-DOS 7.02 (and, I expect, 7.03) CD-ROM.
> > 
> > The DPMS programming info. (and applications notes) are
> > also available from Novell's web site (last time I checked,
> > anyway) ... just search the site for "DPMS".
> 
> I had a look in the 1997 Caldera OpenDOS 7.01 DPMS book (from 
> the SDK). It is stated in there as one of the advantages of DPMS, 
> that "distributing the DPMS server with the clients" is in fact 
> royalty-free. 
> 
> Thanks, Joe, for spotting this.
> 
>  Matthias 
> 
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