Hi,
--- Mike Swanson <mikeonthecomputer(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Just put a trademark on the name but allow it to be used on
> derivations on the circumstance that it clearly shows that it is not
> _the_ ReactOS.
I have looked in to this a bit with the legal council I have on retainer as part of the ReactOS
Foundation work. I think it is around $250 to file in a state and around $1000 to file the federal
paperwork. I will call the lawyer this week and get numbers and a timeframe on what it would take
to make it happen.
Thanks
Steven
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--- Alex IoIonescuioionucuivideotrona> wrote:
> This climate of paranoia is getting to my nerves.
You could at least try to be civil in your discussion. Some of us have spent more than a few years
on this project and have a right to be a little paranoid about if our lives work might be put in
to danger.
> As for Steven... WINE, ROS, and any other compatibility product out there is not 100% clean
> room. It has never been, will never be, cannot be. Especially if we consider debug information
> as being "dirty". Reminds me of people freaking out when I added functions that were in the IFS
> -- you'd hope people would've grown up by now--.
Still it depends on the source of the information. We have discussed in private my views on using
the debug information. I will publicly state I think the law is ambiguous at best and the debug
information should be a valid source given Microsoft position of being a monopoly as found by
Anti-trust proceedings. That being said a court might not agree with me so any behavior must be 1.
Reproduceable or 2. Documented.
> I could make a list of over 25 parts of ReactOS Which are not 100% clean. But I won't, because
> that would tarnish our image. I would appreciate if you'd stop tarnishing mine and making
> accusations.
I am not trying to trash your image. I am simply mentioning the truth that everyone already knows
but could be deadly to this project and others in a kangaroo court in the US. When your source of
information comes from documentation or a third part program exhibiting certain behavior then
there is not a legal question as to if a reimplementation is a original work. If you are basing
your implementation of a feature only on the debug information then clearly, at least in my mind
it runs the danger being found a derived work and everytime you do so it at the very least
tarnishes ReactOS's image.
Thanks
Steven
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--- Alex Ionescu <ionucu(a)videotron.ca> wrote:
> What the fsck are you implying.
Its hard to claim our implementation is "clean room" if you are basing your implementation on
debug information rather than reverse enginered behavior. I am not opposed to observing the
implementation via debug information and then writting tests to match behavior but there is a fine
line...
Thanks
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What if winlogon.exe is run by csrss.exe and not by smss.exe?
A winlogon process, in its own desktop, is needed for each Win32 session.
If we make csrss.exe multiuser, it must create session 0 (console) or
die and therefore run winlogon in it.
This change shouldn't have any effect on compatibility with Windows NT.
smss will assume only csrss is critical.
ea
Wow!
Current SVN (Head)!
Used memory 1015744Kb
(mm/mminit.c:375) Kernel Stack Limits. InitTop = 0x80133000, Init = 0x80130000
(mm/virtual.c:214) FIXME: MEMORY_AREA_SYSTEM case incomplete (or possibly wrong)
for NtQueryVirtualMemory()
(ke/bug.c:56) Found Bugcheck Resource Data!
(ke/bug.c:67) Got Pointer to Bugcheck Resource Data!
(ke/clock.c:80) KiInitializeSystemClock()
(ke/clock.c:99) Finished KiInitializeSystemClock()
No current process
Entered debugger on last-chance exception number 14 (Page Fault)
Memory at 0x9c could not be read: Page not present.
No current process
KeBugCheckWithTf at ke/catch.c:224
A problem has been detected and ReactOS has been shut down to prevent damage to
your computer.
The problem seems to be caused by the following file: ntoskrnl.exe
KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED
Technical information:
*** STOP: 0x0000001E (0xc0000005,0x8002f410,0x00000000,0x00000018)
*** ntoskrnl.exe - Address 0x8002f410 base at 0x80000000, DateStamp 0x0
Page Fault Exception: 14(0)
Processor: 0 CS:EIP 8:8002f410 <ntoskrnl.exe:2f410>
cr2 18 cr3 26000 Proc: 0
DS 10 ES 10 FS 30 GS 10
EAX: 00000000 EBX: 00000680 ECX: 00026000
EDX: 00000064 EBP: 8013245c ESI: 80132834 ESP: 801323ac
EDI: 80132be0 EFLAGS: 00210046 kESP 801323ac Frames:
<ntoskrnl.exe:300fc>
<ntoskrnl.exe:de31>
<ntoskrnl.exe:1285>
<ntoskrnl.exe:1aff>
<ntoskrnl.exe:382d>
<ntoskrnl.exe:c4a3e>
<46C>
KeBugCheckWithTf at ke/catch.c:224
A problem has been detected and ReactOS has been shut down to prevent damage to
your computer.
The problem seems to be caused by the following file: ntoskrnl.exe
KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED
Technical information:
*** STOP: 0x0000001E (0x80000003,0x80005c47,0x00000000,0x00000000)
*** ntoskrnl.exe - Address 0x80005c47 base at 0x80000000, DateStamp 0x0
Hi Hartmut,
> I'm not sure but a native application can only import ntdll.dll. If you
> enable the code, smss will import smdll.dll.
You are probably right. It is the time to make smdll static.
Thank you.
Emanuele
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I was wondering if there was a project that would be doing a binary compatible OS X system. What reactos does for windows maybe this project can do for OS X. I was just wondering. I know that pearpc emulates a ppc processor, but wether or not a full os exists is the question. I know also that some versions of linux exist for ppc.
Thanks
Also - is reactos going to do a mips, ppc, arm, ia64 system?