I agree with what's been said by Alex, and Brian. Hartmut, all this little spat has done has been to shove yet -more- negativity on the project. When a problem like this occurs, you don't turn tail and just run off, expecting it to be solved in your absence. Instead, you stick around, and improve things for the better. In fact, I'd liken your outburst to a tantrum, and I personally think it has done the project more harm than good, especially considering this ML is public.
Fact is, ReactOS aims to duplicate the functionality of Windows. In doing so, I believe it is expected that a certain amount of things cannot be done a different way than to how Microsoft has implemented them. Open up Linux, and I'm sure you'll see LOTS of pieces of code that strikingly resemble UNIX.
On 1/19/06, Brian briandabrain@gmail.com wrote:
I have steped in on other matters where a project developer ( was Alex also ) was attacked. Seeing that these "growing pains" of the project seem to be re-occuring ( and in diferent areas of the project ). I realize I am an outsider of the project, but none the less, i feel that an important problem is starting to rear its little ugly head: there aren't any non-developer types there to help deal with sticking to policy ( because from what i can see, the developers are to envolved with code to handle policy) and I think that in order to prevent further contamination of the code, there needs to be a single (or group) individual responsable for collecting information on how MS handles things.
In this matter, I have to say that I agree with WD and think Alex's actions were ok. He showed that if required to re-write his code, he would at least have enough of an understanding to write something that worked. I feel that Hartmut's actions are hostile, and questionable, though I do agree that the binary code doesn't lie, and a major portion of React OS binary is similar to MS'es, but in duplicating functionality, this should be expected...
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