Re: [ros-general] $$$ Bountys on ReactOS development - 0.2 Relase

[Jason Filby]

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:

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