On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Jason Filby wrote:
Hi all
Indeed, Steven and myself are having a little debate on this issue. This is because I'm in the planning stages of setting up a for-profit company that would sell solutions around ReactOS and eventually look to hire ReactOS developers fulltime. I feel that such redistribution of ReactOS,
Can I make a suggestion? Go after the embedded market as well as the desktop market. I worked for years at a company on embedded products that had no user-interface but we were required to use NT. And honestly, the NT kernel (witout the GUI) is pretty good for soft-real time stuff.
Interestingly enough, I just started an embedded systems company for some software that I used to have as GPL. But I stopped supporting the GPL tree due to lack of interest.
I like the corporation idea. Maybe a good thing to do would be to see if Lindows would offer a bounty or be a first customer. They seem to have the sales channel starting up.
before its usable as a desktop OS, through this company would be an excellent exersize in getting operations started - while contributing
The NTFS driver and networking are two areas that really need improvment.
L8r, Mark G.