Alex Ionescu wrote:
Hi,
Right now, someone has set up an XDCC IRC bot to distribute copies of ReactOS. While I welcome the move, it raises a question on who is responsible for the quality of those files. Even if the person means no harm, the files can get corrupted/infected by the following events:
- Download corruption
- Viral infection
- Hard-disk damage
And perhaps many more. In all cases, this would result in unusable, dangerous or even damaging releases of ReactOS, which we could not control. As such, I propose a vote:
[ ] Yes, allow 3rd-party distribution of the OS through the #ros-xdcc channel and ROS-XDCC-001 bot. (support and encourage this distribution)
[X] Yes, allow 3rd-party distribution of the OS, but it must clearly distance itself from officially supported releases (tolerate but do not support this distribution)
[ ] No, only sourceforge and other official ReactOS distribution points should be used.
Myself I vote for the first choice, but I would like the following to be done:
- Create MD5 Hashes to verify authenticity
- Set up official communications with the bot's maintainer and
establish a set of guidelines.
Best regards, Alex Ionescu
Okay I'll bite!
Must MUST distance the ros development team from all third party distributions!
Miles and miles and miles ,,,, ,, , ,,, .
Do you want to be sued like M$ (aka SCO) did with IBM? I notice that Linus was untouched by them too.
Well? James