Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 19th Mar 2007 00:25 UTC, submitted by Z98
ReactOS The latest ReactOS newsletter is out. "Reactions have varied in regard to 0.3.1, though one response was consistent. The difficulty in getting it to work on real hardware. As mentioned many times, 0.3.1 was branched in the middle of a kernel rewrite."
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by PlatformAgnostic on Mon 19th Mar 2007 01:24 UTC
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I think ROS is GPL source, but they strive for compatibility with Windows interfaces and drivers. They'd have to implement the upper half of the KS API for apps and the lower half for drivers, so they might as well implement the whole thing rather than grabbing OSS or ALSA.

On another note, I read that Alex Ionescu is going to take a job with one of the Big Three soon (Apple, Google, Microsoft). I wonder how this will affect the development of the kernel. Given his experience, I'd bet that Microsoft would be aching to hire him and I have no confidence in their allowing him to continue as a ROS developer if he also has access to the Windows Source.