Alex Ionescu wrote:
"I don't want to face a situation where I am at an exhibition (like LinuxWorld Expo) and a visitor tells me that the ReactOS developers didn't write any user-mode components because each and every component has been merged with Wine and the ReactOS code has been replace by Wine code just because it simplifies your work."
If the visitors statement sometime in the future was correct, would that be a bad thing?
regards, Jakob
Yes. How would you feel when all your work gets deleted and replaced by something else, which works worse but is easier to work with in the current context? And then having people come up saying you're not doing anythign else but copying on another project.
If it is easier to work with in the current context, then it's bound to work better sooner or later.
To people saying I'm just copying another project, I would respond: "If it's that easy, why don't you show us how easy it is to write an NT kernel and hardware support?"
Or something like this: "It would be like saying Linus Torvalds is not doing anything else but copying the GNU libc and user mode utils. That doesn't make any sense."
regards, Jakob Eriksson