Re: [ros-general] Interest in ReactOS

[Tom Lee Mullins]

Björn Fischer wrote:

>   Mark IJbema wrote:
>
> >   On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 09:25:05PM +0200, Ciobanu
> > Alexander wrote:
> >   
> >
> > >   I was just wondering, don't you guys think
> > > ReactOS is a treat to 
> > >  GNU/Linux ?
> > >  For ex. when ROS becomes stable enough i will surely pass to ROS 
> > >  instead of Linux (that i use now). Of course having a lot of GNU 
> > >  utils in ROS , GPL licence, and free Win32 implementation is a 
> > >  temptation for many developers and even GNU/Linux users. So isn't 
> > >  ROS going to unbalance the balance between GNU/Linux / BSD ..etc and 
> > >  MS Win ?
> > >     
> >
> >  Well, maybe it will, but what's the problem with that?
> >
> >  Mark
> >   
> >  
>  Why should it? I think the term "free" is like the one in 'free 
>  speech', not 'free beer'. ROS will be free in that meaning. Why 
>  shouldn't the variety of OS's grow? I think the more free OS's there 
>  are, the better it is for the user because he is free in choosing the 
>  OS he likes.
>
>  Probably "militant" open source lovers will have problems with ROS 
>  because it is supposed to be compatible with a lot of "non-free" 
>  software. But I think it would be good for users.
>
>  Greetings
>
>  Björn
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As ReactOS is a free version of WinNT, OSFree ( http://www.osfree.org ) 
is a free/clone
of OS/2 Warp by IBM. A 'fyi' reply (I am interested in both).

http://www.freeos.com is a site for 'free operating systems.

TomLeeM

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