Re: [ros-dev] Undocumented APIs

[David Johnson]

Keep the NT 5+ compatibility.



On 1/31/06, Alex Ionescu <ionucu(a)videotron.ca> wrote:
>  
>  Casper Hornstrup wrote:
>
> >  I'd like to put this amendment to the IP
> > policy to a vote, but first 
>  let's
> >  start with the 7 day discussion period.
> >
> > "If an API or a particular behaviour of an API which is part of the
> > Windows(R) operating system is not publicly documented by Microsoft, then
> > the API or the particular behaviour of the API may only be implemented in
> > ReactOS if there is documentation of published software which depend on 
>  the
> >  API or the particular behaviour of the API, and
> > which is not only
> > distributed with the Windows(R) operating system. The documentation must 
>  be
> >  available in the repository."
> >
> > I argue that the more ReactOS differ from Windows, the harder it will be 
>  to
> >  prove that ReactOS is a derivative work of
> > Windows.
> >
> > Med venlig hilsen / best regards
> > Casper Hornstrup
> > Chief Executive Officer @ Eudicon
> > ch(a)eudicon.com / www.eudicon.com
> > ([phone]
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >  
>  I am vehemently against this idea and I think it kills any chance of
>  ReactOS being an NT clone. Have we changed goals or something? I thought
>  the point wasn't just to run Windows applications.. if that's all we
>  care about now, then why don't we just say fuck-all to the NT
>  Architecture and you guys can go and do stuff your own way...get rid of
>  smss, get rid of csrss, put win32k in usermode, don't use any internal
>  NT structures anymore, and hell, don't even use syscalls anymore, nobody
>  depends on those.
>
>  Best regards,
>  Alex Ionescu
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