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
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>>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)
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>>
>>On 12/5/05, David Hinz <post.center(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>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:
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>>>>>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,
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>managing
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>>>>>meetings, doing nightly test builds, filling out test cases.... but
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>I'm
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>>>>>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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