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minus-squareBjörn Tantaulinkfedilink18•7 months agoI wonder if this is of any use to them or if they’re already too far ahead.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink28•7 months agoTo my knowledge, FreeDOS has been a fairly complete implementation of DOS for a very long time, so this is probably not useful to them.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•7 months agoGood question lmk if you find the answer. I just use FreeDos to play Chex quest
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink0•7 months agoThey couldn’t use it. MS DOS is released under a licence that restricts redistribution
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•7 months agoIt says here you can modify and distribute: https://github.com/Microsoft/MS-DOS/blob/main/LICENSE
minus-squareBjörn TantaulinkfedilinkEsperanto3•7 months agoThey changed it to MIT. You can basically do what you want with it.
I wonder if this is of any use to them or if they’re already too far ahead.
To my knowledge, FreeDOS has been a fairly complete implementation of DOS for a very long time, so this is probably not useful to them.
Good question lmk if you find the answer. I just use FreeDos to play Chex quest
They couldn’t use it. MS DOS is released under a licence that restricts redistribution
It says here you can modify and distribute: https://github.com/Microsoft/MS-DOS/blob/main/LICENSE
They changed it to MIT. You can basically do what you want with it.
Neat!