[ros-general] Interest in ReactOS

[Karl Hammerschmidt]

Linus Torvalds has said recently that Linux won't be ready for the 
desktop for 5 to 10 years. If ROS can fill that gap, I'm not going to 
complain.

And if all goes well, ROS has a lot to offer, including the potential 
for good application and driver support, standard printing APIs, and a 
standard GUI.

I think the attraction of ROS is different from that of Linux. People 
who want to have a custom OS (choice of desktop, etc.) will be 
perfectly happy with linux.

- Karl

On Jan 26, 2004, at 2:12 PM, Björn Fischer wrote:

> Mark IJbema wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 09:25:05PM +0200, Ciobanu Alexander wrote:
>>
>>> 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 ?
>>>
>>
>> Well, maybe it will, but what's the problem with that?
>>
>> Mark
>>
>
> 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
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