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> If you ought to run a windows application, you use windows anyway. If you like to move to an opensource platform, you have to invest in migrating your applica

> If you ought to run a windows application, you use windows anyway. If you like to move to an opensource platform, you have to invest in migrating your applications anyway. This is a false premise. Even before ReactOS to get traction, there was WINE. From your point of view WINE "doesn't fit" either? And people are spending their precious time in something actually useful for the entire world. They canonize a proven and currently used (in massive proportion) architecture and take it out of the Microsoft's whims. They put their time and effort in a public solution which is an alternative to Windows, yet not a sadomasochistic option like Linux & related (trying to shove down to mainstream user's throat something that was not designed for him). Finally, they do something that is obvious and had to be done a long ago, and I'm shocked how there could be people questioning the even the reason for ReactOS's existence.

xxqs 15y ago
(thanks for not pulling down my karma :)) I am in fact an open-source developer, but there's some business case behind each of my project. I just don't see a business case behind ReactOS. I know about WINE (never used it though), and it makes at least a bit of sense to me, unlike ReactOS.
- noselasd 15y ago
  Not everyone is driven by a business case. Some people want to help feed the poor, some just want to tend their rose garden all year long, and some want to provide a compatible but open source alternative to the OS provided by Microsoft.
  - xxqs 15y ago
    a project of this scale needs proper funding, otherwise it would take forever (which actually seems to be the case). the guys are building a competition to Microsoft. Some may do it for the pleasure of doing that, but I see it as a dead-end, as there is no business driver.
    - userulluipeste 15y ago
      Think of Ubuntu and the money they get from support, then think about having the legacy of Windows.
      - xxqs 15y ago
        if I try to think as a typical Windows sysadmin, I would just use Windows. For those guys, ReactOS is not bringing any benefit, and they will for sure work with a product that they know already. They would only see ReactOS as a source of unpredictable problems and costs.

xxqs 15y ago

(thanks for not pulling down my karma :)) I am in fact an open-source developer, but there's some business case behind each of my project. I just don't see a business case behind ReactOS. I know about WINE (never used it though), and it makes at least a bit of sense to me, unlike ReactOS.

noselasd 15y ago
Not everyone is driven by a business case. Some people want to help feed the poor, some just want to tend their rose garden all year long, and some want to provide a compatible but open source alternative to the OS provided by Microsoft.
- xxqs 15y ago
  a project of this scale needs proper funding, otherwise it would take forever (which actually seems to be the case). the guys are building a competition to Microsoft. Some may do it for the pleasure of doing that, but I see it as a dead-end, as there is no business driver.
  - userulluipeste 15y ago
    Think of Ubuntu and the money they get from support, then think about having the legacy of Windows.
    - xxqs 15y ago
      if I try to think as a typical Windows sysadmin, I would just use Windows. For those guys, ReactOS is not bringing any benefit, and they will for sure work with a product that they know already. They would only see ReactOS as a source of unpredictable problems and costs.