Ekush

[Ge van Geldorp]

> From: Ge van Geldorp
>
> Ekush (http://www.ekush.com) published some binaries. 
> Surprise, surprise, it looks like ReactOS very much (Check 
> e.g. the radio buttons on the "Accept License" screen during 
> 2nd stage setup).
> Some string searching in their binaries reveals:
>
> $ strings -a ver.dll | grep ReactOS
> OS2 Images not supported under ReactOS at this time.

Shortly after I sent this email to ros-dev yesterday the Ekush website went
down. Today they are back, with a slightly changed set of binaries. The
strings I reported yesterday are gone now (well, except for the
CcRosInitializeFileCache and CcRosReleaseFileCache exports from NTOSKRNL,
maybe changing the name of an exported symbol was too difficult???). There's
still plenty of other evidence of the ReactOS heritage though. I guess since
I only reported about ReactOS they forgot to remove the references to Wine
(except ofcourse the copyright notices, those are gone).

This pisses me off bigtime. I can only explain it as a deliberate attempt to
use the work of Qemu, FreeType, Wine and ReactOS without giving credit.

Gé van Geldorp.

[Andreas Mohr]

Hi,

On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 10:16:06AM +0100, Ge van Geldorp wrote:
> > Ekush (http://www.ekush.com) published some binaries. 
> > Surprise, surprise, it looks like ReactOS very much (Check 
> > e.g. the radio buttons on the "Accept License" screen during 
> > 2nd stage setup).
>
> This pisses me off bigtime. I can only explain it as a deliberate attempt to
> use the work of Qemu, FreeType, Wine and ReactOS without giving credit.

Oh no, not again!!

I'd ask them to detail their intentions given that they're using our
licensed code improperly.
Don't be impolite, but make sure that your point comes across.

Maybe tell them that you don't see any advantage of having a separate project
deal with exactly the same kind of task, and maybe that cooperation
would be a much better idea, especially since they pretty much appear
to use our code improperly, and even seem to want to actively hide it away.
ReactOS and Wine certainly could make use of some help ;-)

Just don't escalate the whole thing from the very beginning, this would
be "less clever than possible". ;-)

Andreas Mohr