[ros-dev] My attitude

[TwoTailedFox]

Dell I can't see as being agreeable loading a direct Windows
Replacement, when most of their computers are shipped with Windows.
They'd see a sizeable portion of their income dropped, if Microsoft
decided to pull out of it.

IBM is currently being lobbied to make OS/2 Open-Source.. maybe WINE
and ReactOS should chip in to that petition?

On 12/5/05, David Hinz <post.center at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think we might have good chances that IBM will help us, especially
> with the OS/2 subsystem. And if they still had their PC-branch, I would
> guarantee they would help us, just to show MS that nobody depends on
> them, but unfortunately they don't have it anymore...
> Anyway, I think IBM, Intel and maybe companys like Dell should be worth
> a try.
>
> Greets,
>
> David Hinz
>
> Magnus Olsen schrieb:
> > 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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