Re: [ros-dev] My attitude

[TwoTailedFox]

Dell I can't see as being agreeable loading a direct Windows
Replacement, when most of their computers are shipped with Windows.
They'd see a sizeable portion of their income dropped, if Microsoft
decided to pull out of it.

IBM is currently being lobbied to make OS/2 Open-Source.. maybe WINE
and ReactOS should chip in to that petition?

On 12/5/05, David Hinz <post.center(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>   I think we might have good chances that IBM will help
> us, especially
>  with the OS/2 subsystem. And if they still had their PC-branch, I would
>  guarantee they would help us, just to show MS that nobody depends on
>  them, but unfortunately they don't have it anymore...
>  Anyway, I think IBM, Intel and maybe companys like Dell should be worth
>  a try.
>
>  Greets,
>
>  David Hinz
>
>  Magnus Olsen schrieb:
> >   Nivida will not agree on GPL licen for there drv
> >  linux people have try getting GPL drv from nivida and the answers have
> >  always be no.
> >
> >  ----- Original Message -----
> >  From: "TwoTailedFox" <twotailedfox(a)gmail.com>
> >  To: "ReactOS Development List" <ros-dev(a)reactos.org>
> >  Sent: den 5 December 2005 21:18
> >  Subject: Re: [ros-dev] My attitude
> >
> >
> > >   I can see IBM supporting us, since their last
> > > Good OS, OS/2, is now
> > >  efectively dead. I don't see some companies like Sun, or Novell,
> > >  supporting us, since they already have a vested interest in an
> > >  Operating System
> > >
> > >  What I'd really like to see are Hardware Manufacturers getting behind
> > >  us. Realtek, nVIDIA, ATi, Intel, AMD, VIA, etc, could all be
> > >  approached, and ask for collaboration on writing GPL Drivers (Although
> > >  nVIDIA is notoriously skeptical about open-source)
> > >
> > >
> > >  On 12/5/05, David Hinz <post.center(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Maybe we could get a big company as a sponsor?
> > > > I think, if we wrote to some companys like maybe IBM or so, we might
> > > > find some good sponsors, who could maybe even provide us some full time
> > > > coders. And this could really increase development speed.
> > > > But maybe they just want to help us out with some software or who knows
> > > > what. We just have to ask and we will get an answer.
> > > >
> > > > Greets,
> > > >
> > > > David Hinz
> > > >
> > > > Casper Hornstrup schrieb:
> > > >>> OTOH, I think there needs to be better project management and a
> > > >>> cooperation mentality, something akin to a real start-up software
> > > >>> company. I have this dream where everyone is using Visual Studio Team
> > > >>> System and writing patches for bug reports, using peer-review, 
> > managing
> > >  >>> meetings, doing nightly test builds,
> > > filling out test cases.... but 
> >  I'm
> > > >  >>
> > > > sure that would put many people off. (even though it would cut
> > > > >> development time by a year at least)
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Best regards,
> > > > >> Alex Ionescu
> > > > > Can you get Microsoft to donate licenses for VSTS to all ReactOS
> > > > > developers? ;-)
> > > > >
> > > > > Casper
> > > > >
> > > > >
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