Re: non microsoft OS using windows drivers
Great! May by this will be a good solution for my Primax scanner, which is
equipped only with M$-Win drivers... According to the license I may use
them WITH THIS SCANNER, not with the particular OS. So may be the
React OS will be the good solution for me...
Wojtek Zabolotny
wzab@ipe.pw.edu.pl
On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, aphro wrote:
> At 09:21 PM 9/20/98 +0200, you wrote:
> >On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Paul M. Foster wrote:
> >> On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Geoffrey L. Brimhall wrote:
> >> > Aside from the technical issues of having Linux use windows device
> drivers
> >> > (such as the video card drivers), are there any legal reasons why a
> person
> >> > could not use the device drivers written for the MS Windows operating
> system ?
>
> it is possible, and it is being done, slowly but surely by the ReactOS
> project,
> an operating system aimed to be a free clone of NT that will use NT
> drivers. As
> far as doing this in linux, dont know how it would be done. It is still very
> much in development..dont know when(if ever) it will be completed. If this
> project can do it, I can't think of a way MS could stop individuals from
> loading a NT driver on a non MS OS, they may be able to stop distribution
> of it
> with the OS..if it was a microsoft driver..but 3rd partys..MS could not stop
> directly since it is not microsoft code.
>
> But if you want info on ReactOS:
>
> Homepage - http://www.sid-dis.com/reactos/
>
> What ReactOS is (from their page)
> "ReactOS will be a free operating system that can run software and drivers
> compatible with Windows NT. It will serve as a free alternative to the
> Microsoft
> Windows series of operating systems. ReactOS is targeted for Intel systems but
> may be ported to others later. The project is under development by several
> people around the world that communicate via the services of the Internet."
>
>
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