Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 31st Oct 2005 03:19 UTC, submitted by TwoTailedFox
ReactOS is an open-source Operating System designed to be compatible with Windows NT. Version 0.2.8 sees the culmination of months of work since 0.2.7, and sees the project coming closer to the long-awaited 0.3.0 release.
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Which are, of course, perfectly legal to reverse engineere?
As others said, it mostly depends on where you live. Reverse engineering is perfectly legal in the whole EU. So this is not a problem for (soon-to-be) 400millions EU citizens.
There are SO MANY more productive and needed things today, and I'm afraid that you are focusing your talent on wrong things now.
There are people (like me) who think there's room for a project like this. There are people who are not satisfied with evolution (or lack of) surrounding projects like Linux and who think that a Windows clone could find a good way among users.
If ROS was a completely new OS, maybe you could be right (loot at SkyOS: nice stuff but being a completely new OS IMO is a huge disadvantage...). But if (big "if") ROS can get to achieve good Windows NT/XP compatibility, that would be something great.