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[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 64 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)
[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 18 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I wonder if this is of any use to them or if they're already too far ahead.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

Good question lmk if you find the answer. I just use FreeDos to play Chex quest

[–] psud@aussie.zone 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

They couldn't use it. MS DOS is released under a licence that restricts redistribution

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They changed it to MIT. You can basically do what you want with it.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago
[–] space@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago

Sure, but it's still really interesting from a historic point of view.