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4 Sep 2024 09:21:21 EDT (-0400)
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From: Orchid XP v8
Date: 23 Jun 2010 17:24:30
Message: <4c227b8e@news.povray.org>
>> All of which is of course completely irrelevant, since every single tiny
>> aspect of all M$ products are covered by 80,000,000 patents, so if this
>> product ever starts actually working properly, the developers will still
>> be sued off the face of the Earth.
> 
> How long do software patents last? I would guess that in the same amount 
> of time hardware and virtualization speeds would have increased so much 
> that you might as well just run the *actual* OS in VMWare or whatever.

The problem isn't technology, it's law. ReactOS exists so you can run 
Windows software without actually paying for Windows. (Of course, as I 
pointed out, this doesn't actually work yet.)

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