Issue 3. [Re: [ros-general] ROS-User-Issues]

[jwalsh at bigpond.net.au]

Thanks John.

I am not giving up. 
I just expect a "fair go". That is all.
Just give me a good reason why I'm not contributing and I'll gladly leave ReactOS.
Looking on the bright side, that item about the USB thumbdrive is a good one.
I've been struggling over that one too.
I want to embrace all which flows from FreeDOS to ReactOS and beyond.
but, not forget 9x in between. 
I dont see any reason why 9x must remain single user. 
Before I lost my business in 1987 I sold networked Multiprocessors using PCMOS/386.
I was one of the few in the business at that time.

Cheers and rosuccess

Justin


---- John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com> wrote: 
> On 10/27/05, jwalsh at bigpond.net.au <jwalsh at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> > My ISP has sent all of us a blunt eviction (by stealth) notice, otherwise, I like most
> > other simple DOS  users, am more than  happy with what I have already.
> > They also said  their policy is conditioned by Microsoft.
> > I don't really need NT. Is it something I have got to have?
> 
> Justin, I have bad news for you.  Big ISP's support popular platforms,
> and their support staff don't often stray too far from the rolled
> answers.  If you tell them you are still on Win95, I expect you have a
> moderately good chance that someone at bigpond will know the answer. 
> But ReactOS is not your salvation -- 99% of their support staff will
> wonder what drugs you are on if you ask for support and tell them that
> you are using ReactOS.
> 
> I know this personally because I have been unable to find an ISP that
> will openly support my mother running Fedora.  In regional South-East
> Queensland where my mother lives, her options are limited to either a
> large ISP, or a tiny ISP, neither of which want to understand Linux at
> the tech-support level.
> 
> At the end of the day, if you choose to use unsupported software, you
> need to find your own support, either through mailing listings, or by
> purchasing it from someone else.
> 
> > I am carefull not to put a lot of energy into a "Code Farm", for the large corporations
> > (to my knowledge M$  invented the practice, I've merely identified it).
> 
> It sounds like you are asking ... `If I risk my neck for you, will I
> get a chance to kill Englishmen? ' (Braveheart)  I suspect that the
> answer is `Fight for [ReactOS], and you get to kill English! `.
> 
> Besides that aside, there is always a very good chance that open
> source will benefit large corporations.  For example, in the future,
> IBM might choose to roll out a ReactOS environment as a way of running
> Win32 services.  But whenever open source is used in this way, it
> means big business can use their money to either funnel back into open
> source, or employ more R&D staff, or solve world peace.  And as we
> have seen with IBM, when a big corporation uses open source to make
> money, the human nature within the company usually means that from top
> to bottom, the company has decided to be a responsible part of this
> interwoven world.
> 
> I hope you find a relaxing way to assist open source here in Oz during
> your retirement.
> 
> --
> John
> 
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