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posted by kerravon E-mail, Ligao, Free World North, 04.07.2021, 01:50

> Hello kerravon,
>
> > My main audience is companies who would like to
> > write a commercial Windows clone to compete with
> > Microsoft's monopoly. They have a (somewhat)
> > working system to use as a base instead of having
> > to start from scratch. Companies that won't touch
> ...
> > In the absence of companies willing to use PDOS
> > as a base, or even know that it exists, I just
> > plug away at it myself. 27 years and counting.
>
> Well... you do not see a problem here? If you want your work to be useful
> to other people, perhaps you might want to --- I don't know --- actually
> try to make your work useful to other people? Just saying.
If some American company wishes to compete with
Microsoft Windows, even in a limited sphere, and
makes a decision that they want to close-source
their product, and not be subjected to anyone
else's license/copyrighted code, what do you
suggest they do? Write from scratch?

Is PDOS/386, a somewhat working Win32 subset,
of zero value whatsoever? None of the code can
be reused, nevermind using the entire thing as
a base? It all needs to be rewritten from scratch?

If that's the case, well, fine, I didn't really
have anything better to do for the last 27 years
anyway.

It's normal practice to do market research then
build the product, but I have done the reverse.

BFN. Paul.

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