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by kirha 728 days ago
ReactOS takes from Wine, but Wine does not want to take from ReactOS any longer.
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Not surprising when you compare some leaked NT code and some ReactOS code. I'm not even saying they straight copied the source btw, but some consider that disassembling as a reference is fine (and using MS symbols...). Well it might even be legal in some cases (more cases that some licence-aware people commonly imagine), but this is a really risky stance to take. For sure ReactOS is very far from clean-room.
I think there are more reasons. Maybe let's move this discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40730327 I don't want to make this thread shit-post.