BrikoXM to TechnologyEnglish · 7 months agoMicrosoft open-sources infamously weird, RAM-hungry MS-DOS 4.00 releasearstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up130arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squareHeavybell@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 months ago4.0 is such a weird choice. Like, does 6.22 contain code they’re still using? Is there a reason they couldn’t even share the latest version of their decades-obsolete OS?
minus-squareP03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·7 months agoEven if they were, it would be easy to just decompile and figure it out. Even DOS 5.0 would make more sense to open-source. This is just another argument to revert copyright laws back to 25 years, and give this tech back to the rightful owners: public domain.
4.0 is such a weird choice. Like, does 6.22 contain code they’re still using? Is there a reason they couldn’t even share the latest version of their decades-obsolete OS?
Even if they were, it would be easy to just decompile and figure it out. Even DOS 5.0 would make more sense to open-source.
This is just another argument to revert copyright laws back to 25 years, and give this tech back to the rightful owners: public domain.
Big agree.