Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 14th Aug 2006 16:44 UTC, submitted by Martin Wolper
ReactOS has just released version 0.3.0 RC2 of their open source Microsoft Windows-compatible operating system. They are also now 94% finished with the code audit.
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2005-07-06
Did you miss an emoticon, or did you mean to suggest something so blatantly absurd?
If I understand it, you are suggesting that Microsoft - with an installed base of a gazillion corporate customers largely demanding backwards compatibility - would see this amateur effort as a threat and react by breaking the compatibility their customers demand?
Jeez.
Not like they haven't done it before. Here's how it works :
- MS implements new undocumented API.
- roll out in a fix or service pack
- older parts of API start making calls to new part in some obscure cases causing strange unpredictable errors in emulation software.
- emulation layers are deemed "unpredictable" and "faulty"
Result : competitors are hindered and everything still works on Windows.