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

[Steven E. <Ste...@ya...>]

We should add this to the FAQ =P

>   - why should people invest time and money on ReactOS?
Why should anyone invest in NT/2K? Or Linux? Or anything else? Why are
we not all running VMS on VAX? The answer should be clear.

>   - how will ReactOS survive to legal actions from Microsoft?
Are they going to sue all of us? How about the over 400 copyright
holders in the WINE source tree alone? No, there will come a point where
there are more people contributing to ReactOS and Related
projects(MSYS,MINGW,WINE,etc) then there are Lawyers in M$ Legal.
Plus if we do as Jason and I want and setup ReactOS a non-profit they
wont want to touch  us for fear of more bad public relations and they
will try to act like we don't exist for as long a possible.

>   - isn't Windows too much of a moving target?
NO NO NO NO NO. I admin SCO unix boxes that are 10 years old. I work
with customers that cant give up DOS and Win3.1. Do you think MS can
change the install base overnight to .NET? Hell no, its not to much of a
moving target. I still run 16bit dos/win3.1 apps under XP. =P They have
the weekness of backward compatibltiy that we must exploit.

Thanks
Steven

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