ReactOS Attempts to Clone Windows--A Heapin' Helpin' of Chutzpah!
Now here is an open source (or at least partially open source) project that may have a strong chance of drawing legal action from Microsoft: ReactOS. It is a free, community-driven operating system--currently only in alpha--based on the design of Windows XP/2003. According to developers: "It aims to follow the Windows architecture designed by Microsoft from the hardware level right through to the application level. This is not a Linux based system, and shares none of the Unix architecture." There are some promising aspects to this effort, although there are also some foreboding, clearly similar precedents where Microsoft has called out its legal cavalry. Here's more.
As Xenstreet notes, ReactOS does not really compete directly with Windows XP or Vista, but there are still hundreds of millions of PCs around running very old versions of Microsoft Windows.
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re: ReactOS
Lets see, it's only been like 12 years since they started, and they're still only have a ALPHA version of a OS thats already 7 years old, so in another 50-90 years when they final have a working viable OS, I'm sure that Microsoft's historians will swoop down on them like a band of laughing weasels and taunt the ancient history code out of the developers children and grandchildren.