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.
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