[ros-general] Interest in ReactOS

[Mark IJbema]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 09:59:54PM +0200, Ciobanu Alexander wrote:
> Pe data de Luni 26 Ianuarie 2004 21:38, Mark IJbema a scris:
> 
> "Me" thinks it's a somehow interesting problem .... As GNU operating system is 
> the main goal for KDE/Gnome - like projects, this would mean :
>  1. Porting to win32 and loosing popularity (ROS is somewow more integrated 
> than GNU so i wouldn't like to use KDE for ex. if i'm a user, i would rather 
> use explorer ... etc)
>  2. Continuing on GNU ,and loosing popularity (reasons said below)
>  3. Dismemberment (bad ideea :( )
> 
> Of course i would like to see for ex. Kopete (instant messenger) from KDE 
> working on "my ROS box" :) but somehow without QT and KDE :)

Well, this would be the case if it would wipe linux+kde out of the
market, which probably won't be the case. Each system has it's
advantages and disadvantages. Sure ROS will take some market, but
competition is healthy imho, also for OSS software. I really see no
reason to worry. Look at FreeBSD/Linux for instance, they have coexisted
for quite some time as well.

Mark