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Comment by lproven

FWIW, the original name of FreeDOS was "PD-DOS".

https://www.freedos.org/about/

A lot of non-techies, or techies with not much exposure to the Linux/xBSD world, consider "PD" -- public domain -- to be more or less the same as FOSS.

PD, BTW, is a USA concept and doesn't really exist in the rest of the Anglosphere.

parent lproven 3 years ago

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