From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 12:12:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 12:12:38 -0400 Received: from humbolt.nl.linux.org ([131.211.28.48]:42257 "EHLO humbolt.nl.linux.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 12:12:33 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Daniel Phillips To: Joel Jaeggli , Jocelyn Mayer Subject: Re: Microsoft and Xenix. Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 18:15:47 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: , linux-kernel In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0106261815470G.01008@starship> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 26 June 2001 17:15, Joel Jaeggli wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Jocelyn Mayer wrote: > > you get DR-DOS = Digital Research DOS, then you get Novell DOS, then > you get Caldera OpenDOS, currently opendos is owned by lineo Yes, and the source actually was open for a short time when Caldera had it, then it snapped back shut like a clam. I wanted to use DrDos for an industrial project because of less paranoid licensing than MS-Dos, but after being rebuffed in no uncertain terms when I offered to fix a bug I ran away shuddering and jumped on the Linux cluetrain. > > I think I remember that DR-DOS was the name that Caldera > > gave to the Digital Research OS, previously known as GEMDOS, -- Daniel