<div>Keep the NT 5+ compatibility.</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/31/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Alex Ionescu</b> <<a href="mailto:ionucu@videotron.ca">ionucu@videotron.ca</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Casper Hornstrup wrote:<br><br>>I'd like to put this amendment to the IP policy to a vote, but first let's
<br>>start with the 7 day discussion period.<br>><br>>"If an API or a particular behaviour of an API which is part of the<br>>Windows(R) operating system is not publicly documented by Microsoft, then<br>>the API or the particular behaviour of the API may only be implemented in
<br>>ReactOS if there is documentation of published software which depend on the<br>>API or the particular behaviour of the API, and which is not only<br>>distributed with the Windows(R) operating system. The documentation must be
<br>>available in the repository."<br>><br>>I argue that the more ReactOS differ from Windows, the harder it will be to<br>>prove that ReactOS is a derivative work of Windows.<br>><br>>Med venlig hilsen / best regards
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http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev</a><br>><br>><br>><br>I am vehemently against this idea and I think it kills any chance of<br>ReactOS being an NT clone. Have we changed goals or something? I thought
<br>the point wasn't just to run Windows applications.. if that's all we<br>care about now, then why don't we just say fuck-all to the NT<br>Architecture and you guys can go and do stuff your own way...get rid of<br>smss, get rid of csrss, put win32k in usermode, don't use any internal
<br>NT structures anymore, and hell, don't even use syscalls anymore, nobody<br>depends on those.<br><br>Best regards,<br>Alex Ionescu<br>_______________________________________________<br>Ros-dev mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Ros-dev@reactos.org">
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