From: Yavor Doganov <yavor@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: MSDOS support
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:58:46 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wsj1t5t5.GNU's_Not_Unix!%yavor@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uabfxnkbw.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > Some small parts of FreeDOS are proprietary, but the system cannot
> > work without them
>
> Which ones are those?
I don't know, I vaguely remember one of them was an essential driver.
3 or 4 years ago I attended a conference and there was a speech by one
of the FreeDOS core developers. I asked him whether the system is
100% free so that I could install it on my 286 and 8088 machines. He
said that some parts (he named them precisely, I just can't remember)
are non-free and there are both legal and technical problems that
prevent their replacement.
It appears there is some truth in this, because the link at gnu.org
was removed last year:
RCS file: /web/www/www/links/links.html,v
[...]
revision 1.131
date: 2007-09-11 02:27:23 +0300; author: karl; state: Exp; lines: +1 -3; commitid: qaxpOznA3ziwifxs;
freedos contains nonfree software, confirmed by rms, ticket 340566
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-01 9:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-31 7:17 MSDOS support Dan Nicolaescu
2008-07-31 12:16 ` David Robinow
2008-07-31 18:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-01 7:10 ` Yavor Doganov
2008-08-01 9:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-01 9:58 ` Yavor Doganov [this message]
2008-07-31 14:05 ` Chong Yidong
2008-07-31 14:41 ` Dan Nicolaescu
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