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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On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Jason Filby wrote:
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.
Yeah, thats a given.
But it might be worth expending some thought on being able to compile a ReactOS build without WIN32K.SYS.... it may require some ifdef's at the right spots on CSRSS.
Anyways, something to think about. There are also lots of embedded products that could use a GUI. I worked on a set-top box at one point. It ran VxWorks and we had our own GUI, but it would have been easier to have had the foundation rather than having to develop all that stuff. So ReactOS has some potential.
L8r, Mark G.