Re: [ros-dev] GPL Microsoft Code in the CRT

[TwoTailedFox]

Owning?

If this code is open-source/public domain, what is the problem?



I really don't see where the problem is.

"Combine that with the fact that if
someone was really going to use ReactOS in business then they most
likely would not want to have anything to do with Microsoft."

Explain why not. Really. Businesses use Microsoft a lot, hell,
everyone who has ever written for the Win32 platform has something to
do with Microsoft.

On 11/27/05, Steven Edwards <winehacker(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>   Hi Mike,
>
>  On 11/27/05, Mike Swanson <mikeonthecomputer(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >   If Microsoft contributes to GPL software, why
> > shouldn't we re-use that
> >  code? IIRC, ReactOS is about a free Windows implementation, not an
> >  anti-Microsoft implementation. 
>  I would agree with you except for the fact that its not really that
>  much code in question and we would be better off if we could do
>  without it. People already have enough trouble with the idea of the
>  GPL at least in the business world. Combine that with the fact that if
>  someone was really going to use ReactOS in business then they most
>  likely would not want to have anything to do with Microsoft.
>
>  When it comes down to it I just don't like the idea of them "owning"
>  any part of ReactOS.
>
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