Re: [ros-dev] My attitude

[Nate DeSimone]

    I've been reading this list for about 2.5 years now, I have stuff as 
far back in my archive as when RMS posted to the channel regarding GPL 
issues with drivers and even before that, certainly before Alex even 
joined the project, and I have to say that NEVER in that history have I 
seen straight flaming between developers like this on the public list.  
Now correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like its some of the older 
developers all being really annoyed with a newer developer (aka Alex,) 
while the newer developers while still annoyed deal with him.  Believe 
me when I say this, I have been on a team before where the old guys got 
fed up with the new guys, and it only took a few a short time for the 
team to fail, with the old guys forking off and making their own new 
group and the new guys doing the same.  Project forking in the case of 
ReactOS would be fatal, it would mean tons of duplicated effort and 
years added to the time frame for a working product.  And quite frankly 
from what I've seen it appears that Alex has enough people behind him as 
well as technical ability to successfully operate an active fork, I'm 
not saying he would do this I'm just saying he has the ability if he 
wanted to.  I personally think that this is very unprofessional 
behavior, this should be resolved over something like skype not a public 
channel originally setup to aid COLLABORATION.  You guys know that there 
are people from MSDN that read this list and post about it in their 
blogs right?  Anyway guys, my point here is this isn't just the fault of 
Alex, it is EVERYONES fault, work it out, I want to see ReactOS 1.0, not 
ReactOS 0.5 and <reactos fork name here> 0.5