[ros-dev] Idea to protect ReactOS

[Anich Gregor]

On Monday 22 November 2004 18:33, Steven Edwards wrote:
> Hi,
>
> --- art yerkes <ayerkes at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> > Right idea, but wrong source I think.  We need a neutral party who is
> > under a microsoft NDA but contributes code neither to microsoft's nor
> > our codebase.
> >
> >
> > It's a service we may well wind up paying for eventually.
>
> Thats what I was thinking....We would end up needing to pay someone to
> review these patches and be under the NDA from Microsoft as they would
> be really limited as to what other projects they could work on due to
> the terms of the NDA. I am willing to try and open a dialog to discuss
> this matter with Microsoft but as it stands right now they are avoiding
> us (and the Wine project) and I would like to keep it that way.
>
> Thanks
> Steven

Simple solution (and the opnion of many if not all developers I think): don't 
take any of "their" code.

 - blight