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by josephcsible 820 days ago
Warning: don't look if you ever want to contribute to Wine or ReactOS
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That's just a myth. ReactOS routinely uses IDA to inspect actual Windows binary logic.
Disassembling a binary is "clean room" reverse engineering but looking at leaked source is not.

Or, at least, that was what it was in the 80s.

I know that Microsoft employees have accused them of such things, but is there any real evidence of such, or even anyone unaffiliated with Microsoft who can corroborate?