[ros-dev] Undocumented APIs

[Steven Edwards]

On 2/1/06, Alex Ionescu <ionucu at videotron.ca> wrote:
> > What's the point in making ReactOS work with all applications if
> > people are too scared to use it because of the methods used to
> > implement it?
> >
> I don't see people afraid of using IBM products... or installing
> ATI/NVIDIA drivers... or installing Norton Antivirus...actually, quite a
> lot of people and big corporations use IBM software on their ATI
> videocard, while protected by NAV.

Those corporations have the money to defend the customers in the event
of a SCO type lawsuit. Remember SCO sued Delmar-Chrysler and Autozone
for migrating to Linux from Sco OpenServer. The autozone deal was a
Redhat customer. I assure you any code they write for the Linux kernel
fails under our proposed standard for clean-room reverse enginering if
they did get any ideas from Unix.

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Steven Edwards - ReactOS and Wine developer

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