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Dnew10@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Microsoft and IBM make MS-DOS 4.00 Open-Source

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Microsoft and IBM make MS-DOS 4.00 Open-Source

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Dnew10@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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  • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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    Great.
    This should be the standard for old retired software.

    • Crackhappy@lemmy.world
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      No. This is not great. This is older than all of my kids. Fuck… this is older than my partner. This is not a good thing, this is far beyond the point where it should be open source. Where the fuck is DOS 6.22? Eh? Or Windows 3.11? This is stupid and dumb. Not to be celebrated.

      • spongebue@lemmy.world
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        So should it not have been done at all because it wasn’t enough for you?

      • nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br
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        The historical value alone it already a reason for it to become open source.

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        I see the crack, but where is the happy?

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    DosBox gonna get a boost?

  • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world
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    Then once all the problems are fixed, make it private again.

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    MIT license too, huh. I was sort of expecting a more restrictive one because, well, Microsoft and IBM

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      They could not care less, this is so ancient and irrelevant.

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        Something being ancient and irrelevant tdoesn’t stop a lot of companies.

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    Even Windows XP is unofficially open source at this point.

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