Re: [Freedos-devel] Volunteering

[lyricalnanoha <lyr...@us...>]

You're starting to sound more and more like a troll with each post you 
write:

On Sun, 29 Mar 2009, Michael Reichenbach wrote:

> Also again, why do you believe FreeDOS is free of MS-DOS's intellectual
> property? That's impossible as you implemented a "pretty" compatible
> operating system.

Remember how I said I keep my hands out of the kernel source? If I have 
any knowledge of the MS code for something, I stay away from working on 
any clones as a coder, because I am tainted - that's not just my policy, 
but as I recall, that's the official FreeDOS policy.

> What do you think where the Undocumented DOS knowledge has come from?

Do you know what a "Chinese wall" is?  I mentioned how the Phoenix BIOS 
came into being - information gleaned from Undocumented DOS is the same 
exact process.

> This makes me think... *Imagine* *someone* would claim there is MS-DOS'
> s source code copy & pasted into FreeDOS's source code.
>
> What could you do? You would need to stop using FreeDOS as it *probable*
> contains illegal stuff. On the other hand you have *no way* to confirm
> whenever it's the truth or not.

Just ask ReactOS: they actually had accusations of NT code in their system 
and analyzed the entire source tree to make sure it was clean.

-uso.