[ros-general] $$$ Bountys on ReactOS development - 0.2 Relase

[Jason Filby]

Hi Mark

I agree that the embedded market is one to look at. However, the 
reliability of ReactOS would have to be proven to be successful I'm
sure.

Cheers
Jason

Mark Grosberg wrote:

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>On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Jason Filby wrote:
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>>Hi all
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>>Indeed, Steven and myself are having a little debate on this issue.
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>>is because I'm in the planning stages of setting up a for-profit
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>>ReactOS,
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>Can I make a suggestion? Go after the embedded market as well as the
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>Interestingly enough, I just started an embedded systems company for
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>I like the corporation idea. Maybe a good thing to do would be to
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>>before its usable as a desktop OS, through this company would be an
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>>excellent exersize in getting operations started - while
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>The NTFS driver and networking are two areas that really need
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>L8r,
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>Mark G.
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