[ros-dev] Ekush.com up again

James Tabor jimtabor at adsl-64-217-116-74.dsl.hstntx.swbell.net
Tue Nov 23 22:09:21 CET 2004


Thomas Weidenmueller wrote:
> magnus at itkonsult-olsen.com wrote:
> 
>> I do not trust the ekush project at all.
>>
>> I have never heard that ekush source should be merge to reactos cvs.
>> it was news to me, and  do not feel confort with that. For I misstrust
>> the ehuks project.
>>
>> I do not know what other feel about it
>>
>>  
>>
> I agree, that is just untrue. No one of the ReactOS project ever agreed 
> to merge anything. My personal opinion is just to let these guys drop. I 
> don't want to see a single line of code of "their" project merged into 
> our repository, for several reasons:
> 
> 1. The lied about the origin of the code base claiming it was their's, 
> including unlawful copyright misrepresentation

PING!

> 2. They shipped pirated and hacked binaries from Microsoft in their 
> distribution

PING!

> 3. They haven't ever released any source code

PING!

> 4. Because they did the previous 3 things, I don't trust them at all. 
> Who knows if they even used leaked sources from M$?
> 

A "Bet your A$$" PING!

> I doubt that even if there was the slightest piece of trust and we were 
> sure about "clean" sources they have, it would be worth co-operating 
> with them at all.
> 
> Whatever happens, I'm going to vote against co-operating with those 
> morons and also against merging any stuff into our code base.
> 
> My 2 cents...
> Thomas

I vote to stay away from "those morons" too!
James


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