kX Project Audio drivers open sourced

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Re: kX Project Audio drivers open sourced

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Well, only if the GPL v2 license was added by the owner.
ReactOS is still in alpha stage, meaning it is not feature-complete and is recommended only for evaluation and testing purposes.

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Re: kX Project Audio drivers open sourced

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EmuandCo wrote:Well, only if the GPL v2 license was added by the owner.
Sigh. Reasoning like that is futile. You'd have to assume that:

1)The original account on his email is hacked, since that was what was claimed.
2)That claim either is true, and thus comes from the original owner - in which case it's strange he uses smileys when talking about the hack, and wouldn't retract the fact it's GPL'ed, since that would be fake. Or it's done by the same hacker, who wants to self-incriminate him, and his original account on the forum was ALSO hacked, thus.
3)He couldn't make a second account, or contact the forum-owners, to remove that fake post, or even deny it being GPL'ed in the forum(??).
4)His account on his website of the sourcecode was ALSO hacked and that hacker inserted a readme that clearly states that it's GPL.
5)He can't access or let that be removed neither, since it's still there, after all this time.
6)Neither he, nor other people working on the project or having contact with him ever said anything anymore about the 'hacking', while leaving the GPL standing there, unchallenged. How quaint!



One could say: "Well, hypothetically, it still is possible." Right. In that case, it is also possible Linux isn't GPL'ed. It's rubbish to believe a hacker would manage to hack into three different systems, claim in all instances it was GPL'ed, and yet the original owner failed to note or react to any of it. All this, because some people lack a sense of humour to note the original owner was making a jest.

In fact...maybe the restrictive licence(s) of MS was hacked too, all those decades, and nobody realised it or reacted to remove it?! That's right! MS progs and apps are, in fact, open source!! Woohoo! :D
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Re: kX Project Audio drivers open sourced

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(sorry to revive this old 3ad, but I don't wanna open a new one.)

The problem isn't the license of a 3rd-party software itself, but the "stealing of code" instead of establishing - in true opensource philosophy - profitable collaborations among devs.

So - as always - the suggestion for supporters is to stimulate third-party software developers (whatever open or not) to test their products on ReactOS and - possibly - actively collaborate for its development.

Hope that inspires.
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Re: kX Project Audio drivers open sourced

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