Re: [ros-general] Interest in ReactOS

[Karl Hammerschmidt]

Linus Torvalds has said recently that Linux won't be ready for the 
desktop for 5 to 10 years. If ROS can fill that gap, I'm not going to 
complain.

And if all goes well, ROS has a lot to offer, including the potential 
for good application and driver support, standard printing APIs, and a 
standard GUI.

I think the attraction of ROS is different from that of Linux. People 
who want to have a custom OS (choice of desktop, etc.) will be 
perfectly happy with linux.

- Karl

On Jan 26, 2004, at 2:12 PM, 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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