From: "Matthias Paul" Organization: Rechenzentrum RWTH Aachen To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 13:57:59 +0100 Subject: RE: Greed (was DPMS info) X-mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.22 Message-ID: <8D67D071D82@reze-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de> Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 Joe Da Silva wrote: > 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. It's probably the same for 7.03. > 1. Have Caldera/Lineo reversed their stand on royalties? Seems so. :-( They have changed alot in philosophy in late 1998 and in 1999, unfortunately... > 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? Yes, they have. I can look them up. The Novell offer refers to the original DPMS 1.0 (which is *really* outdated), not the Novell DOS 7 update 15.2 DPMS (was it 1.43???). The OpenDOS 7.01 DPMS probably was something 1.3x or 1.4x, I don't know by heart. DR-DOS 7.02+ ships with DPMS 1.44. Matthias ------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthias Paul, Ubierstrasse 28, D-50321 Bruehl, Germany eMail: Web : http://www.rhrz.uni-bonn.de/~uzs180/mpdokeng.html -------------------------------------------------------------------