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DrDOS Inc Breaking GPL

Posted by Hemos on from the bad-news-bears dept.

Bob Dobbs writes "DR-DOS 8.1 (DrDOS Inc) came out at the begining of this month, however instead of an upgrade to DR-DOS 8.0 the new product is based on work available on the internet. The work includes shareware utilities, a badly patched version of the kernel work by Udo Kuhnt, drivers (Samsung, ESS) and utilities from FreeDOS and others (e.g. pkzip). Full information on the FreeDOS site. (Cheers FreeDOS!)"

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  1. This is bad? by Seumas · · Score: 0, Troll

    I thought information wanted to be free. If it's okay for me to download music from russian sites at a nickel a track or watch movies from bit torrent trackers (and I do both of these readily and happily), who am I (and most of us) to criticise a little GPL violation here and there?

  2. Slashdot, LET US RALLY! by itistoday · · Score: 0, Troll

    Grab your pitchforks--No! Mice! Yes! Grab your mice and let's stab--NO! CLICK! YES! AND LET'S CLICK THEIR WEBSITE TO DEATH!!

    --
    Best. Webhost. Ever. Dreamhost.
  3. DOS is Dead by b3x · · Score: 0, Troll

    netcraft surveys prove it.

  4. Re:How is this illegal? by iambarry · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hmmm. Who says they didn't "give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License along with the Program"?

    Not the article.

    If they didn't, then of course I would see how they where violating the GPL license.

    --Barry