Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 1st Jul 2008 15:11 UTC, submitted by elektrik
ReactOS The ReactOS project has released version 0.3.5 of their ambitious operating system. ReactOS aims to be a "ground-up implementation of a Microsoft Windows XP compatible operating system. ReactOS aims to achieve complete binary compatibility with both applications and device drivers meant for NT and XP operating systems, by using a similar architecture and providing a complete and equivalent public interface." This new version comes packed with improvements.
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RE[4]: uh ... why?
by FunkyELF on Wed 2nd Jul 2008 15:17 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: uh ... why?"
FunkyELF
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2006-07-26

It is not about money it is about freedom:

- Where will i'll be able to buy XP in two years and who guarantees that?
- Who guarantees Microsoft won't stop authorizing XP installs?
- Where can I legally and for an reasonable price for an private person buy the XP source code to make very necessary changes to it required to sanely use it on a nettop or to correct really old flaws it has?
(eg. for easy correctable flaws: non resizable dialogs, still existing win3.11 dialogs)
- why the hell have i to put up with this incredibly annoying WGA?


While we're talking about guarantees...who guarantees their software runs on ReactOS.

Answer : Nobody!

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