Why question a good thing?
Comment on Microsoft open sources MS-DOS 4.0
Outtatime@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Why
Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Voyajer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Why wouldn’t you? Why not a later version, or every version? Wouldn’t you like to know the reasoning behind the decision for doing this with MS-DOS 4 specifically?
MudMan@fedia.io 2 months ago
To complete that question:
Why... not 6.22?
Outtatime@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Precisely. I guess others seemed to get offended
Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
I assume 6.22 is still in production, and might be that even someone is paying Microsoft for support.
MudMan@fedia.io 2 months ago
Well, the two relevant questions there are: A) is it?, and B) so what?
It's not like you're not allowed to provide paid support for a piece of open source software.
At this point I'm not sure what portion of the difference between 4 and 6.22 is relevant or unknown. That's a pretty well explored platform. I guess this way FreeDOS stays relevant a bit longer? Maybe? It's not like it isn't trivial to pull a copy of 6.22. It was trivial when it was new.
Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
If 6.22 is used in military/banking/insurance/emergy systems deep in the critical infrastructure, you don’t want attackers finding weakness in OS that is not patchable.