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Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

Just had to share this, because it really made me laugh from our comments following NVIDIA contributing to open source, and then Microsoft doing open source 🤣

GamingOnLinux website article list showing:

-NVIDIA contributing to open source nvk driver
-Then Microsoft open sourcing MS-DOS 4
-Then dogs and cats living together (fake article - a joke)
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Italian Skeleton

@gamingonlinux Will a project like Dos Box benefit from this release? Like, making it more stable or accurate in its emulation?

robla

I'm so glad they did this and chose a legit license (MIT license). This is so important for historical reasons. It's a bit jarring for me to see this particular logo, since I have a lot of personal reasons to think of this logo as "the MS-DOS 5.0" logo (and I think the logo was indeed launched with 5.0 in 1991 rather than with 4.0 in 1986). In skimming the Wikipedia article, it may be that IBM's PC-DOS 4.0 is what most Americans remember running (for those of us that remember computing in those ancient years):
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS_4

I'm so glad they did this and chose a legit license (MIT license). This is so important for historical reasons. It's a bit jarring for me to see this particular logo, since I have a lot of personal reasons to think of this logo as "the MS-DOS 5.0" logo (and I think the logo was indeed launched with 5.0 in 1991 rather than with 4.0 in 1986). In skimming the Wikipedia article, it may be that IBM's PC-DOS 4.0 is what most Americans remember running (for those of us that remember computing in those ancient years):

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@gamingonlinux

This code is from the evil MS days though, it's whitewashing their monopoly powers.

FrostKiwi 🇬🇧🇩🇪🇷🇺🇯🇵

@gamingonlinux Progress. I'm still pissed at Nvidia for blocking the combination of Windows Remote Desktop + OpenGL, a combination often used in the medical space, then demanding you get Quadros to get that feature.
One of many reasons the relationship to FOSS could be boiled down to youtube.com/watch?v=iYWzMvlj2R for the past decade.

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@gamingonlinux Linux fans and cheerleading for corporations, name a more iconic duo (you can't)

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@gamingonlinux How benevolent of them to open source futile/obsolete portions of their software while they lock down the actual meat day by day.

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