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Jim Hall is an open source software advocate and developer, best known for usability testing in GNOME and as the founder + project coordinator of FreeDOS. At work, Jim is CEO of Hallmentum, an IT executive consulting company that provides hands-on IT Leadership training, workshops, and coaching.
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Hi Hank! Thanks for the great comment.
It's true! I was a bit surprised when someone pointed out to me that I've been working on FreeDOS for longer than MS-DOS was a thing. The initial release of MS-DOS was 1981, and effectively stopped in 1995. I've been developing FreeDOS since 1994, and we're still going. That's 23 years for FreeDOS, compared to 14 years for MS-DOS.
Officially, Microsoft retired MS-DOS as a product in 2000. That's still only 19 years.
Typo on date? I think you meant Lightning Talks will begin at 1:15pm EST on October _24_.