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Originally posted by akincer View PostIf it's XP binary compatibility they're shooting for initially, they have at most 7 years of patent threats and probably less. After that, any and all patents filed related to XP should have expired I believe.
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If it's XP binary compatibility they're shooting for initially, they have at most 7 years of patent threats and probably less. After that, any and all patents filed related to XP should have expired I believe.
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I follow this project for a long time...at some time it almost died but lately they have more devs, included WINE code were it was logical to do so and seem to be "getting there" with lot's of code rewrite....i believe that in 1-2 more years we can get something interesting to replace WinXP...witch is interesting because support for XP will close down in 2014.
As for be sued, as long as keep code clean and is simply reverse-engineered Micro$haft can do squat to them, at most, only FUD...
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Originally posted by Kemosabe View PostBUT what is the point of a Windows compatible OS that is capable to run mostly Windows XP software and drivers?
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Originally posted by gamerk2 View PostThey can't. The legal rational for ReactOS is the same as the one for WINE.
I do think that if Microsoft would like to shut down ReactOS they would easily find some broad bogus patent through which they could litigate, and obviously ReactOS would have no money to go to court so they would have to yield.
On the other hand, ReactOS is nowhere near being a threat to Microsoft Windows so the devs likely aren't particularly worried.
Originally posted by gamerk2 View PostReactOS nearly died because one developer was found to have not clean-room-reverse-engineered one block of code, and they had to audit EVERYTHING for compliance as a result.
Which is a good think as he is an authority on the NT kernel (and windows subsystems in general) and also proficient as a developer.
Overall ReactOS is a great project which suffers from the same thing that Haiku OS does, which is a desperate lack of developers.
One benefit of ReactOS versus Haiku though is that once ReactOS compability is greatly improved, users will have access to the huge amount of available Windows software, meanwhile Haiku OS will still be plagued by the severe lack of software.
That said, given the extremely small resources available to these projects, the amount of funtionality they've been able to achieve is nothing short of amazing.
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Originally posted by Cthulhux View PostIt's not wrong to use a Windows-like OS that's developed slower than Windows, given that it won't adapt "tiles" so soon...
ReactOS is only superior to wine when it comes to drivers BUT drivers under Linux is no issue at all nowadays. U know what i mean?
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