Hi Mark
I agree that the embedded market is one to look at. However, the reliability of ReactOS would have to be proven to be successful I'm sure.
Cheers Jason
Mark Grosberg wrote:
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.
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