RE: [ros-dev] Goodbye Everyone...

[Murphy, Ged (Bolton)]

Rick Langschultz wrote
> It seems that many people want to give up the project, which would be  
> a total loss of time and energy of those who have spent many hours  
> and money on the project.

I agree that it has looked like that on occasions, however I assure you that
is not the case :)

It is inevitable that as a project grows in size and popularity, it also
becomes much more political. There is no avoiding the fact that the ReactOS
of today is a very different environment from what it was. This change leads
to many of the original developers viewing the project of losing the aspect
of fun which it used to have. As a consequence, many are leaving the project
which, is a sad and unfortunate outcome.

There is no getting away from the fact that politics would eventually
emerge, it was going to happen some day. All big project have this barrier
to battle with, and that day has arrived ReactOS too. However with project
growth bringing the unfortunate addition of politics, it also brings the
welcome addition of excitement and maturity. End users now have something to
try out, we even have firefox and thinderbird running now :-D

This level of maturity should ensure the survival of ReactOS, even if there
are huge mountains to climb every so often.

Hope that raises a few spirits, keep your eye on ReactOS this weekend  ;)

Ged.

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