[ros-dev] My attitude

[Kai Moonbourn]

"Does the same thing but isn't from Microsoft" seems to be a pretty
effective pitch these days....

On 12/5/05, Andrew Silver Blade Greenwood <lists at silverblade.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Then we must ensure that our brand name is more valuable.
>
> TwoTailedFox wrote:
>
> >The Brand Name they're buying is worth the fee
> >
> >On 12/5/05, Richard Campbell <eek2121 at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I'll disagree with this, Dell pays money for copies of the Windows
> >>Operating System, if a free, open source compatible clone were to come
> >>along, i think they'd jump on it in a heartbeat.
> >>
> >>TwoTailedFox wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>Dell I can't see as being agreeable loading a direct Windows
> >>>Replacement, when most of their computers are shipped with Windows.
> >>>They'd see a sizeable portion of their income dropped, if Microsoft
> >>>decided to pull out of it.
> >>>
> >>>IBM is currently being lobbied to make OS/2 Open-Source.. maybe WINE
> >>>and ReactOS should chip in to that petition?
> >>>
> >>>On 12/5/05, David Hinz <post.center at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>I think we might have good chances that IBM will help us, especially
> >>>>with the OS/2 subsystem. And if they still had their PC-branch, I
> would
> >>>>guarantee they would help us, just to show MS that nobody depends on
> >>>>them, but unfortunately they don't have it anymore...
> >>>>Anyway, I think IBM, Intel and maybe companys like Dell should be
> worth
> >>>>a try.
> >>>>
> >>>>Greets,
> >>>>
> >>>>David Hinz
> >>>>
> >>>>Magnus Olsen schrieb:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>Nivida will not agree on GPL licen for there drv
> >>>>>linux people have try getting GPL drv from nivida and the answers
> have
> >>>>>always be no.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>----- Original Message -----
> >>>>>From: "TwoTailedFox" <twotailedfox at gmail.com>
> >>>>>To: "ReactOS Development List" <ros-dev at reactos.org>
> >>>>>Sent: den 5 December 2005 21:18
> >>>>>Subject: Re: [ros-dev] My attitude
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>I can see IBM supporting us, since their last Good OS, OS/2, is now
> >>>>>>efectively dead. I don't see some companies like Sun, or Novell,
> >>>>>>supporting us, since they already have a vested interest in an
> >>>>>>Operating System
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>What I'd really like to see are Hardware Manufacturers getting
> behind
> >>>>>>us. Realtek, nVIDIA, ATi, Intel, AMD, VIA, etc, could all be
> >>>>>>approached, and ask for collaboration on writing GPL Drivers
> (Although
> >>>>>>nVIDIA is notoriously skeptical about open-source)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>On 12/5/05, David Hinz <post.center at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>>Maybe we could get a big company as a sponsor?
> >>>>>>>I think, if we wrote to some companys like maybe IBM or so, we
> might
> >>>>>>>find some good sponsors, who could maybe even provide us some full
> time
> >>>>>>>coders. And this could really increase development speed.
> >>>>>>>But maybe they just want to help us out with some software or who
> knows
> >>>>>>>what. We just have to ask and we will get an answer.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>Greets,
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>David Hinz
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>Casper Hornstrup schrieb:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>OTOH, I think there needs to be better project management and a
> >>>>>>>>>cooperation mentality, something akin to a real start-up software
> >>>>>>>>>company. I have this dream where everyone is using Visual Studio
> Team
> >>>>>>>>>System and writing patches for bug reports, using peer-review,
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>managing
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>meetings, doing nightly test builds, filling out test cases....
> but
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>I'm
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>sure that would put many people off. (even though it would cut
> >>>>>>>>>development time by a year at least)
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>Best regards,
> >>>>>>>>>Alex Ionescu
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>Can you get Microsoft to donate licenses for VSTS to all ReactOS
> >>>>>>>>developers? ;-)
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>Casper
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>_______________________________________________
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> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
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> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>--
> >>>>>>"I had a handle on life, but then it broke"
> >>>>>>
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> >>>>
> >>>>
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> >>>
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> >
> >
> >--
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> >
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