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

[Robert K. <ro...@ko...>]

Jason, have you already thought about talking to AOL?
I don't like their umpf rrrk program, but it seems to be a mighty company.

Since they are in battle with M$, now. It would make sense to them
to support a different Windows.

I just thought that.

Jason Filby schrieb:

> 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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