Re: Ros-dev Digest, Vol 8, Issue 17

[Lucio Diaz]

I can imagine the News:

BIG CORPORATION SUES A GROUP OF COLLEGES FOR
DEVELOPING A NEW WINDOWS.

MICROSOFT THREATENS A LITTLE NON PROFIT PROYECT!

MICROSOFT AGAINST LIBRE SOFTWARE!

This has the chance to make microsoft more damage than
you think they can do to ReactOS, unless they feel
really threatened i doubt there will be any microsoft
legal atack unless you use clearly microsoft code in
the near or intermediate time.
>

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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 13:31:19 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Steven Edwards [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: [ros-dev] ReactOS Foundation 501c3
> Status - Approved
> To: ReactOS Development List [e-mail]
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> Hi James,
>
> --- James Tabor
> [e-mail]
> wrote:
> > Paying developers? Hum?
> >
> > I don't want to be the bad guy here, but this
>
> could push people away from the project. It would
> > be
> > like going back to five years ago when ROS had no
>
> GUI just a command console. Everyone will wait
> > for five or so developers to fix things, and trust
>
> me it does happen that way in the real world.
> > The back log will kick their asses.
>
> See the other thread. I don't think paying
> developers as full time workers is a good idea. I
> think
> Contracts or bounties on certain projects are.
> > Now I have to ask, where does the money come from?
>
> If the ORG has no money, I guess it should
> > produce a competing distribution CD. This could
>
> make M$ happy, so M$ would have a target to
> > sue at. Also everyone on the board would become a
>
> target as well.
>
> I was wrong in the other email. I forgot we have $25
> in the general fund atm which was raised at
> LinuxWorld. I expect we can make quite a bit selling
> CDs, T-Shirts, Etc, if we want as well as
> just accepting donations. As for the fear of
> lawsuit, the idea behind the foundation was that it
> was better the foundation get sued and try to have
> some cash for legal defence rather than some
> poor developer in school. Everybody here knows the
> risk from Microsoft....
>
> Thanks
> Steven

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