Re: [ros-general] A note to all you ReactOS Developers

Yes Al, I agree.
I remember when Be and the BeBox were first announced. Wow ! was I excited.
A while back I discovered SkyOS and my old excitement was revived.
       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyOS
They had the professionalism and the open source principles in balance.
I also stumbled on  Haiku too.
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku_(operating_system)
Only now is the whole thing comming together in my aging head.
My excitement is returning (again).
But I am still worried that autocracy of professionalism is a two edged sword.
Open and close are not only heterogenous concepts.
They are also homogenous.
Each being the condition of the existence of the other.
I remain optimistic

Cheers and rosuccess

Justin

---- Al Hartman [e-mail] wrote:
> This is just a note to say that the ReactOS Project and the Haiku 
> Project are the two most exciting projects in the Open Source Community today!
>
> You guys are creating a historic piece of software here...
>
> When you get to the 1.0 Release, you will have done something NEVER 
> done before.
>
> Clone the most popular OS ever written.
>
> And I look forward to that first boot of 1.0
>
> Al
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[Ge van Geldorp]

> From: [e-mail]
>
> A while back I discovered SkyOS and my old excitement was revived.
>        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyOS
> They had the professionalism and the open source principles 
> in balance.

Huh? SkyOS is not open source. The wikipedia page you link to starts: "SkyOS is a proprietary operating system"

Gé van Geldorp.

[K McI]

Ge van Düsseldorf wrote:
> Huh? SkyOS is not open source. The wikipedia page you link to starts: "SkyOS is a proprietary operating system"
>
> Gé van Geldorp.

Neither was BeOS, he's just reminiscing about old, good, alternative OSes...

-uQ