[ros-dev] What Happened

[Rick Langschultz]

Don't get me wrong, reactos is a great programming idea. The way some  
people do things is not necessarily what the community would want. As  
a long term web developer I had an interest in VFS implementation of  
NTFS over FAT or other filesystem. Creating a private mailing list  
not available to the community restricts information from getting to  
developers that want to continue to develop reactos, whether they  
commit or not. Everyone has the right to develop what they think  
ReactOS needs. Personally I think ReactOS needs stable Networking, a  
more stable and secure filesystem, and service implementation. I also  
think that building a universal install disk would be great --  
install on PowerPC, intel, arm, all on one cd would be great. I am  
not willing to give up on programming projects so I will continue  
developing code, but when the audit is complete I just hope 99% of  
the community is there to back ReactOS up...


On Feb 8, 2006, at 4:05 PM, Ged Murphy wrote:

> Rick Langschultz wrote:
>> "The ReactOS(r) project is dedicated to making Free Software  
>> available to everyone by providing a ground-up implementation of a  
>> Microsoft Windows(r) XP compatible operating system." Why not say  
>> I am sorry ReactOS is off limits to you, the community, because  
>> people steal, cheat and lie. It is said that good programmers  
>> steal code, and great programmers know whose code to steal...  
>> Stealing M$ code is obviously not the wisest choice...
>>
>> I will continue to develop my own personal ReactOS code but I  
>> don't think I will contribute it to ReactOS. My implementation of  
>> the NT VFS over FAT will be rolled into a new project. And be able  
>> to be downloaded by ROS developers and community members.
>>
>> Ridiculous...
>
> As is your attitude ...
>
> The ReactOS developers have spent thousands upon thousands of hours  
> writing a free operating system for the world to use.
> It has become so large now, that the inner workings are becoming  
> business like, and measures must be put into place to deal with this.
> If you can't accept that developers need a place where they can  
> discuss topics, have arguments and sort out issues, out of the  
> public eye then that's your problem. I'm positive Linux and BSD  
> have somewhere where developers can discuss issues, as do most  
> other large (and even small) projects  Maybe we should take minutes  
> of any telephone conversations we have and post those too?
>
> I for one am glad you won't be committing any code. You attitude  
> sounds like it would generate more problems than it's worth.
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