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Ekush: A CherryOS For the Windows World?
GvG writes "Yesterday, Ekush version 0.10 was released (binary only, no source). Ekush is a relatively new attempt at cloning Microsoft Windows. The ReactOS project has the goal of creating a GPLed OS that is compatible with Microsoft Windows applications and drivers.
The release of Ekush caused some uproar in the ReactOS community, since it soon became apparent that Ekush was not much more than a repackaged version of ReactOS. Doing a simple string search for ReactOS on the Ekush binaries showed a number of hits. (Read on for more.)
GvG continues "Shortly after this was reported on the ReactOS mailing list, the Ekush website went down "for maintenance". Today they are back with a slightly altered set of binaries, which no longer contain the ASCII string "ReactOS". However, they forgot to search for Unicode strings... Ekush is not only violating the rights of ReactOS by deriving a product without releasing the modified source, they also derive code of (and are violating the rights of) Wine, FreeType and QEmu."
Larry Snyder adds "Additionally, at the time of this writing, their binary floppy diskette driver appears to be a near exact copy of the Windows 2k pro fdc.sys driver, with the copyright string and header changed."
we's gonna get ourselves a GPL violator!
Damien
Now we neeed a Cherry OS for Linux
Oh wait...
The website mntions that its designed for the Bangladesh market. I went to college with a prince of Bangladesh. He screwed me over on our final project for physics. Didn't show up for the presentation, then claimed that he had done all of the work I presented. Unfortunate for him, he didn't relalise that I had been consulting the professor on a regular basis about the project. So it was obvious who was telling the truth. I'm not saying everyone there is corrupt. In fact, the only problem I had with the situation is that he didn't even offer me a bribe of any kind.
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
Gates and Allen have a hand in this....I can smelly their durty, little mutts all over it. Why, if I had half the might I'd show them what for and kick their middle eastern butts back into the democratic hell hole they come from. Grrrrrrrrrr
Are we trying to slashdot pages of guys violating the GPL or what? The site's like taken offline right now man.
Wait... That sounds like a good idea... no more than a version of http://www.aa419.org/, Artists against 419 scammers...
... and who can deny that the "roadmap" they worked so hard to develop (as commented on their home page) comprises PDF's of "Visual BASIC For Dummies", and "Teach Yourself Programming In 21 Days" ... the usual documentary output of any Infosys, Satyam, Wipro or similar programming team.
Microsoft Windows is the most acknowledged operating system throughout the world. But it is highly dominated artifact to the people and MS have a monopoly to our desktop. Due to the fact, EKUSH is a lineup effort to the Win32 platform, an alternative OS to run your existing windows applications. Our focus is to build the alternative platform; a brilliant Operating System for our community.
Now THAT is a professional blurb -- wait here while I get my credit card!
REM Old programmers don't die. They just GOSUB without RETURN.
Who is Ladesh and why does everyone say to bang her?
Eeeugh! Who would want to order drinks in their bar? They'd fill your glass from other glasses, puddles on the bar and slop from the taps-- IF you're lucky!
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
If Ashcroft were here, he'd be going after these Linux copywrongdoers tooth and nail! Er, because he accomplished the goal of securing the US from crime and terror...
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make install -not war
ReactOS may well be cool, but *UGH* they really need to find someone that knows how to write HTML.
I wondered why as I hovered over links the font size changed, cusing the entire page to flicker all over the place - then I found why:
From their page source:
meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0"
Friends dont let Friends use MSFP
> Whats slow about ReactOS development?
It tooks you 6 whole minutes to write a two line rebuttal !
No, the OS that stays crunchy in milk!
Filled with vitamin fortified DLL's!
And a free application in every box!
emt 377 emt 4
It's hard not to come to the conclusion that the consensus on slashdot is that infringing the GPL = bad, infringing movie/music/etc copyright = okay.
To be fair (and I do agree with you, by the way), the general view is usually closer to "infringing copyright for profit = bad, infringing copyright for personal use = good." So it's not soley a GPL vs Big Buisness thing.
I'm sure that if some company out there ripped of Britnee Speares and started trying to sell her CDs as their own, most Slashdotters would agree that's a bad thing. (And not just because Britnee Speares music is awful.)
You are in a maze of twisty little relative jumps, all alike.
That's right. I've decided that tomorrow I'm going to release a new operating system. It will be a POSIX-compliant OS that will have complete Linux compatibility. It's also going to have a great desktop GUI that is 100% compatible with KDE.
The package will be named FishIx and FDE.
Now, away to the FishCave! I've grepping to do if I'm going to get this done in time! Kernel.Org is the place to grab source, right?
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We don't complain if you take ReactOS or PearPC and put it on a filesharing network. In fact we encourage you to do this.
What we complain about is taking something, changing the name, a few text strings and some images, and claiming you wrote it yourself.
This would be like taking one of Britney Spear's songs, changing the name and saying it was you who wrote it. I can't think why you would want to do that, but nevertheless, it could happen.