Comment by bubblethink
7 years ago
>baseless defamation of ReactOS ("like a baby mosquito on the back of an giant elephant")
If only he had called it a cancer. That seems to work well generally.
7 years ago
>baseless defamation of ReactOS ("like a baby mosquito on the back of an giant elephant")
If only he had called it a cancer. That seems to work well generally.
The infamous "cancer" analogy was referring to the copyleft-licensing, not the actual system per se.
Saying ReactOS infringes 200+ Microsoft patents and threatening for lawsuits to developers and all users is a more effective FUD approach to me, and may even be factually true. The entire project of Linux kernel was running under this threat for 10+ years until ~2005 (?) when an agreement was established.
AFAIK Software patents aren't enforceable outside of the US+Japan though.
That would be enough to get an injunction and prohibit the software from being distributed in the US, which would deny a very important market for the developers.
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