would a ReactOS developer care to explain to me why it's still a useless virtual machine queen when the complete source code of Windows XP has been available for in excess of 5 years?
Microsoft could sue and shut down ReactOS if they use any code from Windows. It's the same reason they actually turn away former Microsoft employees. ReactOS is on a legal tightrope and Microsoft will try to destroy it if it gets too good.
>>108951522because they're stupid lazy hacks
>>108951522Because nobody with a choice would ever choose Windows.
it took 30 years for Wine to get good.ReactOS is much bigger in scope: own kernel, driver compatibility, the entire userland.
>>108951578fpbp /threadThe real answer is just legal liability. Is it retarded? Yeah but even just the implication of hiring an ex microsoft dev like anon said could be enough to sink them in court.
>>108951522Leaked proprietary source code is still proprietary until the developer explicitly relicenses it under a FOSS license. No legitimate FOSS project would want to touch it and have to deal with a company's legal team, especially from a trillion-dollar megacorp like Microsoft.
>>108951821But what about how chardet was relicensed to MIT from GPL by LLM???????
>>108951821It is until the copyright expires.Doesn't help ReactOS but good to remember.
>>108951522I literally look like that
>>108952119Better pepper your angus.
>>108951578>>108951821>>108951807Who cares about being sued?American faggots care to much about this stupid shit
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>>108951800alcoholism projects^|explanation
>>108951522As a reactos dev, the thing you need to understand is i hate you and i think you're a lazy nigger.
>>108951522The XP source code "leak" is a honeypot, controlled opposition. To accuse react when they make i, M$ will say: "Hey, that line of Code belongs to our 'leaked' code base." M$ is afraid of reverse engineering, but everything will be RE'd in the future, so the future is proper licensing and FOSS.They won't touch it and try to be on their own. Btw, ract just got ARM support.
>>108952511Vladimir Vladimirovich, mind your language
>>108951522the whole project is an unserious pile of shit that literally NO one cares aboutjust use Windows. if you want to mod it or change it, learn assembly and start patching the DLLs.
>>108951578Is there any point on having a clone NT kernel when wine implements win32 on top of a bunch of different operating systems just fine?
>>108953879WINE isn't fine. It's hardly enough to get the job done and who wants to manage a subsystem on top of their main system?
>>108951578It's 2026. Why hasn't someone just asked an LLM to do it? Since LLMs are apparently copyright laundries.
>>108951578as if a bunch of russians cared about copyright lmaothat's the actual reason why wine doesn't accept contributions from them
>>108953936>and who wants to manage a subsystem on top of their main system?microsoft does with WSL
>>108951522>less entitled wanglows jeetnthusiastel oh el
