![]() Seier -> Reverse engineering someone elses work is illegal. In all fairness though I'll conceed that this isn't always the case. I think if you take the time to read some of the laws, you'll find that in many cases, reverse engineering is, indeed, illegal. If you want to do some research, I stronly suggest taking a look here. I don't think what these guys are doing is actually reverse enginering in the eyes of the law (at least here in the USA) - the DMCA law isn't all that clear in a lot of these cases. mask-programmed or similar embedded software products).Ī genuine competitor will try to reduce their use of the intermediate description generated by reverse engineering to the absolute minimum necessary, to avoid copying, whereas a pirate will attempt to use the reverse engineered code to the maximum extent possible and add the minimum of independently created material, to make the product a "lookalike" in so far as possible, and to reduce the amount of effort they use. QQ - There are thus legitimate and illegitimate reasons for wanting to reverse engineer software products, chips, printed circuit boards and other hardware products, and firmware (i.e. Gotta give it at least a 4 for their continued effort towards a real windows alternative, and not just making another *NIX OS. The site says that at v0.5 they'll consider it beta & suitable for every day use (not sure what that means as far as hardware/software compatabiity though). You never know, if they get this OS up to snuff it might effect MS OS pricing. Progress may be slow, but at least they haven't given up like a lot of others have, and very few others were trying to be "windows replacements". (could save preschools money better spent elsewhere), after all, most of us have hardware sitting around, it's the OS that'd cost us to do such good deeds. instead of offering linux as a windows alternative to cut prices, they could offer a true windows replacement instead, it would have been great if it had been up to speed for the OLPC project.Ī lite free "windows" OS would be good for throwing together old "junker" pc's for file servers, grandparents or tiny tots that don't need much to run educational games, etc. I'd love to see it go gold, Imagine all the possibilities, i.e. Never has never think it's obvious that the point is to make not just a free alternative OS, but a free true NT based windows alternative (written from scratch) that runs windows apps and uses windows drivers. Linux will never do this because it's not API compatible. M$ Windows will never have any real competition until has an open freeware API compatible os that replaces Windows in droves. even if it got to the stage where it can be run on one's second PC instead of Windows it would be great. ![]() If ultimately sufficient people supported it, it might be ok. On the other hand, if I have an Oxford Dictionary and I lose it and I buy a Webster instead then all's well. If I buy a Chinese dictionary when I only speak English the Chinese dictionary is useless to me. Linux is ultimately useless to Windows users. The thought of M$ independent Win 32 API stuff is the stuff of dreams as Windows compatibility at the binary level ultimately solves the Linux incompatibility. I can't understand why this product isn't rushed by every open source developer everywhere. I looked at it a year ago and had problems this time I've not had enough time to make up my mind but it's rough. ![]() It would be wonderful if React OS would really take hold. Right, it's a no-brainer (even if we don't like the choices). going-somewhere Windows (even if we don't like where it's going). going-nowhere ReactOS super-early alpha Given the huge desire of millions to rid themselves of having to rely on M$, you'd think thousands of programmers would be queuing up to join this project and that after a decade-plus we'd have real product, but alas ReactOS is still little more than a joke.Īnyone really know why this project has been so moribund for so long-is it perhaps a pet project of a few who won't let others in or something similar? (I've watched it going nowhere for years and I'm curious as to why it's even still around.) Theoretically, for Windows users wishing for an alternative to M$, an 'open' version of 'Windows' running genuine Win32/64 APIs would be a much better proposition than having to switch to any version of that other going-nowhere operating system, Linux, as existing code would be running naively, and for Windows users, years' worth of programs would be preserved not to mention continuing to working in a familiar environment. Obviously, it's not a real project which is very unfortunate. If you look at the changelog you'll see this project has been underway for at least 12 years. The Forth Millennium will arrive faster than v1.0 of ReactOS.
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