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   From: "Rich Walsh"    
      
   On Thu, 9 Dec 2010 05:47:12 UTC, "Allan"  wrote:   
   > On Thu, 9 Dec 2010 05:05:54 UTC, Steve Wendt  wrote:    
   > > Allan wrote:   
   > >    
   > > > OS/4 is a project of a small group of developers, and is currently closed   
   > > > source.   
   > >    
   > > I have a hard time understanding why anyone should feel confident in    
   > > replacing such critical components, when it is neither open source or    
   > > from a well known, trusted source.   
   >    
   > Well, maybe they will open source it, when it is ready - I don't know.   
   > OS2LDR from same team has been made available, as far as I understand.   
   >    
   > I guess it is a matter of taste, what you call an untrusted source, and I'm   
   > not sure, what risk you think can happen from this 'untrusted' source.   
   > I know at least one of the members of the team has developed several   
   > system key components for eCS, which all eCS 2.0GA users use today.   
      
   It's the same people & same closed-source model that took 7 years to develop   
   an ACPI implementation that works for most users.  I'm not impressed.  I'm   
   also not confident that issues involving this loader & kernel would be resolved   
   in any sort of timely fashion.   
      
   BTW... I just tried the newest version.  The system locked up after starting   
   netbind.exe (it normally pauses at that point but this time it froze).   
      
      
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