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

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

Yes, I have considered that. IBM is another company, Oracle too.

- Jason

--- "Robert K." <ro...@ko...> wrote:
> 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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