[ros-kernel] Re: Tainted code in User32?

[Richard Campbell]

Erm, forgive me for pointing out the obvious, but Windows is Microsoft's 
current cashcow, DOS died a long time ago.  I do recall similar 
conversations/disagreements taking place on the FreeDOS lists a long 
time ago.  (My interest before i found ROS was FreeDOS)

James Tabor wrote:

> Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
>
>> "James Tabor" <jimtabor at adsl-64-217-116-74.dsl.hstntx.swbell.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Page 446, Undocumented Windows 2000 Secrets, Sven B. Schreiber,
>>> "I also would like this book to spur the inquiring minds of 
>>> developers everywhere,
>>> kicking off an avalanche of research that unveils the mysteries that 
>>> still
>>> surround most parts of the Windows 2000 kernel. I never believed 
>>> that treating
>>> the operating system as a *black box* was a good programming 
>>> paradigm-and I still
>>> don't believe it."
>>>
>>> Me too!
>>>
>>> But! do not debug the M$ code!
>>
>>
>>
>> IANAL, but the quoted above approach is certainly valid if you are 
>> developing
>> a driver targeted for an MS OS, since it's the clear case of 
>> interoperability
>> requirement. But when you are developing a clone OS it's completely 
>> illegal.
>> And please take it as such.
>>
> Wow!
> I guess the FreeDOS project is illegal too! I need to email Jim Hall 
> and Bart
> Oldeman and let them know what we (yes I was once the kernel 
> maintainer for FreeDOS)
> are doing is illegal!
>
> Thanks for clearing this up for us,
> James
>
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