Re: [ros-kernel] Forward: "ReactOS is too limited"

[Jason F. <jas...@ya...>]

Your OS can only run on machines and with components that there are
drivers for. NT has an overwhelming amount of drivers out there - and
I gave up on Slackware after two video cards didn't work because of
driver problems. Detected the right drivers.. but they just didn't
work.

Legal suits: ok something similar to this came up on the discussion
board of reactos.com. Simply ReactOS is going to be more than a
battle of code. The ReactOS Foundation - which is still coming - will
be a big shield for individual developers. Commercial companies based
off of projects like ReactOS have financial resources to back legal
battles. Look at Lindows based off of WINE - they're willing to even
fight over the Windows trademark!

Besides, we like ReactOS - working on it, seeing it grow and take
shape - and it's not going to go away.

- Jason

--- "KJK::Hyperion" <no...@li...> wrote:
>my dear friend, klan-mate, and silent ReactOS advocate Juliet
>forwards me some criticism to our project from the sunny land of
>Usenet:
>IMHO Reactos is too limited, it's doomed to an eternal pursuit to
>the NT-based kernel functionalities, and whenever it will become a
>vague menace to M$, it would be badly put down with legal suits,
>the true alternative would rather be building a new user-friendly
>frontend to Linux/FreeBSD/Hurd, like Apple did, only this time the
>frontend must be  made open source, and errors such as the
>scattering of resources happening with Gnome vs. KDE must be
>avoided this time
> 
>Comments?
> 


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