Re: [OT] Did you try ReactOS?

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Why don't you suggest MS suing Samba and Wine too, together with ReactOS?
They also do very high crime - implementing a compatible systems! Certainly

"Implementing a compatible system" _while using the information leaks from the
original vendor_ is a law violation, and probably even a crime (depends on
country).

So, if there will be evidence that Samba and/or Wine developers used the leaked
MS's source to write their code - then Samba and/or Wine will have legal
issues.

Making a clone based on direct confidential information leaks from the original
vendor is surely punisheable.

"Implementing a compatible system" _based on reverse-engineering_ is a milder
thing, and probably not a law violation at all - any pharmaceutical company
from the country other then world's Top 10 do this to create "generic" drugs,
and I never heard it is illegal (unless the company also "borrow" the original
product name, which is a crime).

At least the Russian company of "Ferein" - well-known clonemaker of medicines
for ~13 years - was operating OK, and now is prosecuted due to tax dodging and
not due to IP violations.

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Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
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