>There's one simple solution to all of that: put the old DOS stuff in the
>public domain.

Errm, there's some copyright issues with that, I'm sure. Actually, I was thinking along the lines of slapping it up on a password-protected FTP site. I wouldn't ever look for it to happen, though. The attitudee inside a lot of companies, and not specifically MSFT, is, "why don't they just upgrade?". You work with SBT, you know what I'm talking about. :-)

Now, you and I know that converting takes time, which equals money. Yeah, just try to explain why you blew a chunk of this year's budget upgrading without adding any new functionality. Alas, those inside the software companies are used to working on the bleeding edge every day, and the concept of using ten year old software is completely foreign to many of them.