http://www.osnews.com/story/16834/New_ReactOS_Newsletter_Interview Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:48:39 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?196996 http://osnews.com/thread?196996 Actually quite an entertaining read.. Bit of technical mixed in with politics and general group dynamics.

I have often thought that ReactOS was moving a bit slowly, but it must be one mammoth task! Fri, 29 Dec 2006 09:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (hhcv) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197015 http://osnews.com/thread?197015 yes, this was the best interview so far in my opinion. despite being one of the Reactos developers he came off as very objective. Fri, 29 Dec 2006 12:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Valhalla) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197065 http://osnews.com/thread?197065 If it sounds far fetched to say that the EULA for microsoft operating systems has recently been fairly draconian then you haven't been reading closely. There are disturbing aspects to the availability and use of information collected by operating system software. ReactOS and free/open source software provide a needed reality check that keeps commercial software vendors from acting as an oligarchy with regard to limiting user freedom and taking more liberties with users' private information.

This guy nailed an important issue.

Like most people, I either don't read EULAs or just skim them. But anytime I look close I'm dismayed and concerned by what I'm agreeing to. Fri, 29 Dec 2006 19:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (KenJackson) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197301 http://osnews.com/thread?197301 In the Interview:

> Do you ever wish there were just more developers?
>
> Sure. I miss royce and gvg a lot.

Do anybody know, what Royce and GvG now do?
I think, GvG planed to change to the WINE-project. But in the last CVS-commitments its name isn't there. So it seems, that he is also with this unhappy. It seems ROS was the only project they have worked on.

So, do anybody know, what the people who have lost ROS now do?

Isn't it possible for them to create a new Windows-clone, if they think that the ROS-auditing isn't good enough?
I also don't like it, that the people who have left ROS do no loger work on a Windows-replacement.

If they would working together to create a new project, then we would have still the power of them.

And if GvG & Co are right, that the ROS audit isn't good enough, than we would have a second OS with the same goal. Sat, 30 Dec 2006 16:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (theuserbl) Comments