[syslinux] For Bernd Blaauw

Geert Stappers stappers at stappers.nl
Sun Mar 13 15:07:22 PST 2005


Hello Bernd,

I think you might wanna known this.


Cheers
Geert Stappers

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From: Geert Stappers <stappers at stappers.nl>
To: "Blaauw,Bernd B." <B.Blaauw at student.fontys.nl>, syslinux at zytor.com
Subject: Re: [syslinux] retrieve drive letter of USB Media.
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On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 07:33:32PM +0100, Blaauw,Bernd B. wrote:
> >I don't wanna make anybody unhappy,
> >but it seems that you have a serious legacy problem.
> 
> >The trick is thinking in functionality, not in applications.
> >Tell your organisation about the Total Cost of Ownership of non-free
> >software.
> 
> This isn't economically motivated.
> I'm working on FreeDOS, just an opensource clone for using all those old applications and games, and for general use for legally spreading bootdisks etc (bios flashing, familiar with that?).
> 
> just a hobby, no economical motives.
> 
> I guess you mean under Linux it's a lot easier to retrieve the USB medium as /dev/sdXn ?
> 
> next thing you know people are negative on a project like ReactOS saying 'why waste your talent on that and not working on Linux instead?' .
> 
> Yes, I do have a problem..I'm no hardcore programmer and limited to my knowledge of batchfile 'coding'/scripting. No Pascal, no C, no C++.
> I even suck at writing Java.
>  
> but, what non-free software where you talking about, exactly?
> 
> Bernd
> 
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none piticcular.

I did (wrongly) assume that fontys.nl is your employer.

My request is/was to ask the education institute Fontys to work with
software that their pupils (students) are allow to study.

But you are allright studying / working on Free software.

My apology.


Cheers
Geert Stappers

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