On 12/5/05, Andrew Silver Blade Greenwood < lists@silverblade.co.uk> wrote:

Then we must ensure that our brand name is more valuable.

TwoTailedFox wrote:

>The Brand Name they're buying is worth the fee
>
>On 12/5/05, Richard Campbell <eek2121@comcast.net> wrote:
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>>I'll disagree with this, Dell pays money for copies of the Windows
>>Operating System, if a free, open source compatible clone were to come
>>along, i think they'd jump on it in a heartbeat.
>>
>>TwoTailedFox wrote:
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>>>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@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>>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:
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>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@gmail.com>
>>>>>To: "ReactOS Development List" <ros-dev@reactos.org>
>>>>>Sent: den 5 December 2005 21:18
>>>>>Subject: Re: [ros-dev] My attitude
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>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)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>On 12/5/05, David Hinz < post.center@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>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:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>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,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>managing
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>meetings, doing nightly test builds, filling out test cases.... but
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>I'm
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>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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