Jim Hall
FreeDOS Project coordinator
mTCP doing something silly
2011-12-08 12:52
Memes can be a lot of fun. One meme is the Nyan Cat, which started as an animated GIF of a cat with a Pop-Tart body, flying through space, leaving a rainbow trail. The animation is more popularly known as a YouTube video set to a remix of the song “Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya!”. Hence, Nyan Cat.
Kevin Lange has [...]
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The myths of open source software
2011-11-22 6:36
I uncovered this interesting article from CIO Magazine’s archives. “The Myths of Open Source” by M. Wheatley clearly presents (and dismisses) these top myths of using free / open source software (FOSS). In the general interest of helping to dispel some common myths, I thought I’d share the article highlights here:
The attraction is the price [...]
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Open source: twice the value
2011-11-15 11:36
I wanted to share this article, even though it doesn’t directly involve FreeDOS. CIO Magazine recently ran an article about open source software: “Twice the Value” by Maria Korolov. The article discusses the trend of companies to release software using a dual license: open source, and proprietary.
From the article:
Some software buyers deliberately seek out such [...]
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MS-DOS turns 30 years
2011-07-27 3:40
I’d like to take a moment and recognize the 30-year anniversary of “DOS”. Extreme Tech provides this history:
Thirty years ago, on July 27 1981, Microsoft bought the rights for QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) from Seattle Computer Products (SCP) for $25,000.
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IBM released its Personal Computer in August 1981 running version 1.14 of SCP?s QDOS [...]
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