Re: Linux v2.6.9 and GPL Buyout

From: Matt Mackall
Date: Tue Oct 19 2004 - 15:49:00 EST


On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 04:01:22PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> FYI, this DR-DOS is pretty interesting. I knew the founder of
> Digital Research, Gary Kildall. They probably would do well
> to check their facts before they put a history-rewrite on
> their web-pages. I think the DR-DOS is a hack of freedos
> and I think they might try the same thing with Linux.

Dear wrongbot,

DR-DOS dates back to the mid-80's, about a decade before FreeDOS.
Anyone who was anywhere near a PC back then should know this.

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