Announcement - I will stay away from FreeDOS 'Officials'

Once upon a time, I found that a group of people working on a Open Source DOS, that is FreeDOS. They almost code everything from scratch, to avoid licensing terms and the limitation of MS-DOS. MS-DOS was dead, no more support from Microsoft, and no more companies will code their application for DOS. Though I change to Windows, I still keep a lot of DOS tools, mostly rescue hard disk, or detect hardware, which is almost impossible in Windows. I joined the FreeDOS mailing-list, at that time the list still host by Topica, I join the list 2003-07-31. I know nothing about FreeDOS, so just reading the development status, and test the stability and compatibility. I see significant improvement, new build of kernel one by one, also the less frequent update of FreeCOM. DOSKEY and TAB key auto complete functions implemented. I'm happy that FreeDOS becoming more stable. I met Jack R. Ellis through Luchezar Georgiev, when I play around the 'UDMA 6.7' driver, I never learn that UDMA disabled when using DOS until I load the driver. At that moment Lucho (Luchezar Georgiev) already break up with Jack because of the different programming idea between them. Jack did continue to develop UDMA in the name of UDMA2 and Jim Hall decide to put UDMA as 'base' utility of FreeDOS at 2004-02-22. So don't believe anyone say: "Jack refuse to help FreeDOS"! I have evidence to prove this was the dumbest lie. Jack have 40 years of programming experience. Maybe his attitude towards quality, and his perfection really stimulate the others, some FreeDOS developers attack him, if you feel interest please check out the mail archives, I never imagine the civilized western world still have this kind of barbarianic creatures alive! The motives maybe they were afraid. Jack's know the code too well, if he keeps coding like that, they'll left long way behind, so they try to make him angry and stop distributing his works, well ... their plot almost succeed. During Mid-2004, the development slow down, some of the developers didn't shown up, some of them quit, some are really busy at daily life. I know Open Source project IS driven by motives, so I blame no one. Luckily in 2006 things turn out to be better, some developers return to work on FreeDOS, and FreeDOS v1.0 released, still lots of work for them, but my feeling was hurt within these months, so I'll keep low profile. Now I keep working on my little single disk project, that's the USB Driver Disk. I'm sure a lot of users even fail to handle CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT, during the development of FreeDOS, an alternative way of multi-configuration scheme adapted, quite different from MS-DOS, but it's easy to use.