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:
> 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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[Mark Grosberg]

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.