[ros-general] Interest in ReactOS

[Björn Fischer]

Mark IJbema wrote:

>On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 09:25:05PM +0200, Ciobanu Alexander wrote:
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>>I was just wondering, don't you guys think ReactOS is a treat to GNU/Linux ?
>>For ex. when ROS becomes stable enough i will surely pass to ROS instead of 
>>Linux (that i use now). Of course having a lot of GNU utils in ROS , GPL 
>>licence, and free Win32 implementation is a temptation for many developers 
>>and even GNU/Linux users. So isn't ROS going to unbalance the balance between 
>>GNU/Linux / BSD ..etc and MS Win ?
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>Well, maybe it will, but what's the problem with that?
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>Mark
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Why should it? I think the term "free" is like the one in 'free speech', 
not 'free beer'. ROS will be free in that meaning. Why shouldn't the 
variety of OS's grow? I think the more free OS's there are, the better 
it is for the user because he is free in choosing the OS he likes.

Probably "militant" open source lovers will have problems with ROS 
because it is supposed to be compatible with a lot of "non-free" 
software. But I think it would be good for users.

Greetings

Björn