Ekush.com up again

[Ibrahim Damlaj]

I don't know if anyone has been to ekush.com recently:
> "       We are also decided to remove all the non-GPL'd code from our source tree and re-publishing the project based on React OS and Wine. All the Ekush sources will be merged to the React OS tree; sources and binary both will be published accordingly under the GNU GPL and EKUSH.COM will be the official web home for Ekush OS. Hope it will eliminate all the confusion and misunderstanding regarding Ekush Operating System.  "

[K McI]

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Ibrahim Damlaj wrote:
| I don't know if anyone has been to ekush.com recently:
|
|
|>"       We are also decided to remove all the non-GPL'd code from our
source tree and re-publishing the project based on React OS and Wine.
All the Ekush sources will be merged to the React OS tree; sources and
binary both will be published accordingly under the GNU GPL and
EKUSH.COM will be the official web home for Ekush OS. Hope it will
eliminate all the confusion and misunderstanding regarding Ekush
Operating System.  "
|

So... away with the MS floppy.sys (If that was theirs), and now they're
just going to re-release ROS under their own name, like a different
flavor? Maybe just adding/translating Bengali? If they can do that
without more copyright violations then this could be good.

~           -uniQ

PS. Anyone know what "Ekush" means?
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I do not trust the ekush project at all.

I have never heard that ekush source should be merge to reactos cvs.
it was news to me, and  do not feel confort with that. For I misstrust
the ehuks project.

I do not know what other feel about it

Citerar Ibrahim Damlaj [e-mail]:
> I don't know if anyone has been to ekush.com recently:
> > "       We are also decided to remove all the non-GPL'd code from our
>
> source tree and re-publishing the project based on React OS and Wine. All the
> Ekush sources will be merged to the React OS tree; sources and binary both
> will be published accordingly under the GNU GPL and EKUSH.COM will be the
> official web home for Ekush OS. Hope it will eliminate all the confusion and
> misunderstanding regarding Ekush Operating System.  "
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[Jakob Eriksson]

[e-mail] wrote:
> I do not trust the ekush project at all.
>
> I have never heard that ekush source should be merge to reactos cvs.
> it was news to me, and  do not feel confort with that. For I misstrust
> the ehuks project.
>
> I do not know what other feel about it

You have to read between the lines.  "Merged with" probably means
they will send patches ReactOS' way whenever they find a bug or
implements something new.

Much like ReactOS contributes to Wine.

It's excellent to have a ReactOS packager. Think of Ekush as a Slackware or
a Redhat. Time will tell.

regards,
Jakob

[Jonathan Wilson]

Be carefull to vet any patches they send our way.
We need to be sure that they arent just copy + paste from MS leaked source 
code.

[Ibrahim Damlaj]

I agree, but can one know if the source code they send is leaked...
That's really freaky, since they may give M$ a chance to shut down the Reactos.

Be careful guys.

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 19:09:29 +0800, Jonathan Wilson [e-mail] wrote:
> Be carefull to vet any patches they send our way.
> We need to be sure that they arent just copy + paste from MS leaked source
> code.
>
> Ros-dev mailing list
> [e-mail]
> http://reactos.com:8080/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev

[K McI]

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Jonathan Wilson wrote:
| Be carefull to vet any patches they send our way.
| We need to be sure that they arent just copy + paste from MS leaked
| source code.

But wouldn't that require to possess said code, which is (I think)
illegal, and expose us (Or whoever does this vetting) to the risk of
being "tainted" with the MS stuff?

~          -uniQ
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[Thomas Weidenmueller]

[e-mail] wrote:
> I do not trust the ekush project at all.
>
> I have never heard that ekush source should be merge to reactos cvs.
> it was news to me, and  do not feel confort with that. For I misstrust
> the ehuks project.
>
> I do not know what other feel about it

I agree, that is just untrue. No one of the ReactOS project ever agreed 
to merge anything. My personal opinion is just to let these guys drop. I 
don't want to see a single line of code of "their" project merged into 
our repository, for several reasons:

1. The lied about the origin of the code base claiming it was their's, 
including unlawful copyright misrepresentation
2. They shipped pirated and hacked binaries from Microsoft in their 
distribution
3. They haven't ever released any source code
4. Because they did the previous 3 things, I don't trust them at all. 
Who knows if they even used leaked sources from M$?

I doubt that even if there was the slightest piece of trust and we were 
sure about "clean" sources they have, it would be worth co-operating 
with them at all.

Whatever happens, I'm going to vote against co-operating with those 
morons and also against merging any stuff into our code base.

My 2 cents...
Thomas

[James Tabor]

Thomas Weidenmueller wrote:
> [e-mail] wrote:
> > I do not trust the ekush project at all.
> >
> > I have never heard that ekush source should be merge to reactos cvs.
> > it was news to me, and  do not feel confort with that. For I misstrust
> > the ehuks project.
> >
> > I do not know what other feel about it
>
> I agree, that is just untrue. No one of the ReactOS project ever agreed 
> to merge anything. My personal opinion is just to let these guys drop. I 
> don't want to see a single line of code of "their" project merged into 
> our repository, for several reasons:
> The lied about the origin of the code base claiming it was their's,
>
> including unlawful copyright misrepresentation

PING!
> They shipped pirated and hacked binaries from Microsoft in their
>
> distribution

PING!
> They haven't ever released any source code

PING!
> Because they did the previous 3 things, I don't trust them at all.
>
> Who knows if they even used leaked sources from M$?

A "Bet your A$$" PING!
> I doubt that even if there was the slightest piece of trust and we were 
> sure about "clean" sources they have, it would be worth co-operating 
> with them at all.
>
> Whatever happens, I'm going to vote against co-operating with those 
> morons and also against merging any stuff into our code base.
>
> My 2 cents...
> Thomas

I vote to stay away from "those morons" too!
James