[ros-dev] My attitude

[Magnus Olsen]

Nivida will not agree on GPL licen for there drv
linux people have try getting GPL drv from nivida and the answers have
always be no.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "TwoTailedFox" <twotailedfox at gmail.com>
To: "ReactOS Development List" <ros-dev at reactos.org>
Sent: den 5 December 2005 21:18
Subject: Re: [ros-dev] My attitude


> I can see IBM supporting us, since their last Good OS, OS/2, is now
> efectively dead. I don't see some companies like Sun, or Novell,
> supporting us, since they already have a vested interest in an
> Operating System
>
> What I'd really like to see are Hardware Manufacturers getting behind
> us. Realtek, nVIDIA, ATi, Intel, AMD, VIA, etc, could all be
> approached, and ask for collaboration on writing GPL Drivers (Although
> nVIDIA is notoriously skeptical about open-source)
>
>
> On 12/5/05, David Hinz <post.center at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Maybe we could get a big company as a sponsor?
> > I think, if we wrote to some companys like maybe IBM or so, we might
> > find some good sponsors, who could maybe even provide us some full time
> > coders. And this could really increase development speed.
> > But maybe they just want to help us out with some software or who knows
> > what. We just have to ask and we will get an answer.
> >
> > Greets,
> >
> > David Hinz
> >
> > Casper Hornstrup schrieb:
> > >> OTOH, I think there needs to be better project management and a
> > >> cooperation mentality, something akin to a real start-up software
> > >> company. I have this dream where everyone is using Visual Studio Team
> > >> System and writing patches for bug reports, using peer-review,
managing
> > >> meetings, doing nightly test builds, filling out test cases.... but
I'm
> > >> sure that would put many people off. (even though it would cut
> > >> development time by a year at least)
> > >>
> > >> Best regards,
> > >> Alex Ionescu
> > >
> > > Can you get Microsoft to donate licenses for VSTS to all ReactOS
> > > developers? ;-)
> > >
> > > Casper
> > >
> > >
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