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hackthemack
I, perhaps, owe my career to DOS. As a kid, everyone relied on me to get their games, soundcard, and disk drives to work. Juggling IRQs HIMEM and CHKDSK. Soundblaster 16 forever!
tnelsond4
Now someone turn this into a new templeos distro.
Panzerschrek
It's surprise for me that there are still non-opensourced MS-DOS versions. Why keeping them closed?

And I see no reason not to opensource early Windows versions (up to 2000).

rbanffy
The main issue for open-sourcing old software is copyright. Not all companies buy the copyright of the tools and libraries they incorporate in their software, making it difficult, if not impossible, to open source them.

Also, getting the source code for external libraries was not common until open source became the norm. Making something open-source often requires rewriting parts of it.

klipklop
The world needs 6.22 open sourced.