Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 19th Mar 2007 00:25 UTC, submitted by Z98
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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if so happens, the sco vs linux clown show will be a flea on the back of a elephant in comparison...
I dunno. In the case of SCO vs IBM, SCO has been able to show the SCO-owned code that was released verbatim by IBM under the GPL without SCO's permission, and they still haven't been able to recieve damages.
Copyleft software has been amazingly successful in the courtroom, even when the facts of the case are To Kill A Mockingbird-obvious. ReactOS probably doesn't have anything to worry about.
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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.