[PLUG] OT ReactOS 0.3.5 is out...

Tue Jul 1 19:50:15 UTC 2008

On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 07:46 -0700, Richard C. Steffens wrote:
> someone wrote:
> > Imagine  
> > being able to run your favorite proprietary Windows program in a  
> > GPL'ed OS.  Imagine a Windows XP compatible OS that isn't as bloated.
> >   
> Imagine being able to get an XP compatible OS after yesterday.

The less help ReactOS gets, the longer it is going to take to stabilize
it.  It would be awesome if the team could stabilize it early.  Aside
from Dirk Dashing Secret Agent, I don't see much effort to design
popular software for Linux.  The majority of effort, even by my game
company, is to produce software for Windows.  This doesn't just hurt
Linux adoption, it hurts adoption of other OS'es as well.  This Windows
bias that Intuit and other software companies are guilty of will give
Microsoft a stranglehold on the software market until an OS like ReactOS
takes off or wine gets 1000 times better.  Wine and ReactOS are
developing together, so helping the Wine project helps ReactOS.

     Michael Robinson