[ros-dev] My attitude

[TwoTailedFox]

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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> >>>>
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