[lug] M$ does it again...down under

[John Karns]

One thing I forgot to mention is that the Caldera OpenDOS includes Stacker
and Personal Netware - DOS with integrated networking - what a concept!
... and a nice menu-driven front-end for the configuration.


On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, John Karns said:

> There are some examples of OS's & applications which are distributed to
> educational or other non-profit org's with relaxed license terms.  One
> example is Caldera's OpenDOS (evolved from DR-DOS) ver 7.01 which is
> available to educational institutions without a fee:
>
> "Caldera grants you a non-exclusive license to use the Software in
> source or binary form free of charge if (a) you are a student,
> faculty member or staff member of an educational institution
> (K-12, junior college, college or library), a staff member of
> a religious organization, or an employee of an  organization which
> meets Caldera's criteria for a charitable  non-profit organization" ...
>
> Perhaps those people who refurbish the older hardware could be somewhat
> creative in chosing alternatives, for example they might look into the
> availability of the old GUI that was a would-be Windows competitor, GEOS
> IIRC.

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John Karns                                        jkarns at csd.net