GPL'd version of MS-DOS?

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What did I stumble across? I have no idea, it I couldn't find any liscence.txt file.

It's MS-DOS 7.10

ScreenShot

Weird stuff... I though Bill hated the GPL?

It's suppose to be from the "China Dos Union", what did China buy MS-DOS and GPL it?

 

[n0cmonkey]

That's kinda scary.

 

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here is were I found it

Somehow I don't think they quite understand what the GPL is for... or something.

No clue.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

It's not source, is it?

And yeah, sounds like the guy (company, whatever) is a bit confused.

 

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nope, no source.

I think it's just a couple guys, apparently MS released a bunch of dos utilities for no cost on a cdrom or something, and these guys just stuck them all together to make a standalone version of MS-DOS 7.10.

A bit interesting, has support for long file names and all that. I find no mention of the liscence anywere else, and that Liscence.txt is gone completely. I think they figured it out, but were just to lazy to remove it from the installation dialog. Or something like that.

Still going to play around with it. I am going to try out that stripped down Win98 shell on it....

edit:

Mini Win98 Screenshot

Weird stuff. (BTW, the total install size of the mini98 is 13megs.)

 

[Calin]

7.xx was (if I remember correctly) the DOS version beneath the win98. As it was a fully functional DOS, there is no reason why someone couldn't made an install script/program for it.
I doubt it comes from MS, but if it is, then it is just a "stop gap measure" against other operating systems

Calin

 

[CTho9305]

Originally posted by: Calin
7.xx was (if I remember correctly) the DOS version beneath the win98. As it was a fully functional DOS, there is no reason why someone couldn't made an install script/program for it.
I doubt it comes from MS, but if it is, then it is just a "stop gap measure" against other operating systems

Calin

Correct. That "GPL'd" DOS is pirated.

 

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Originally posted by: CTho9305

Originally posted by: Calin
7.xx was (if I remember correctly) the DOS version beneath the win98. As it was a fully functional DOS, there is no reason why someone couldn't made an install script/program for it.
I doubt it comes from MS, but if it is, then it is just a "stop gap measure" against other operating systems

Calin

Correct. That "GPL'd" DOS is pirated.

bout what I thought. Nothing GPL'd about it. Silly chinese guys.
Oh well, I am sure that I have a couple win9x disks lying around somewere. I certainly have the liscence for it if anything.

FreeDos is better anyways. It's installer isn't as slick though.