Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> For those of you that don't know, there's a thing called ReactOS. It's a 
> free operating system which is supposed to be binary-compatible with 
> Microsoft Windows XP. (Despite the small and obvious problem that this 
> _should_ be 100% illegal.)

  Why would it be illegal? There's no law in any country I know of which
would forbid building a system which is capable of running an program.
It's not much different from making an emulator, and those aren't illegal.

  It would be illegal for them to lift binaries (eg. system libraries) from
Windows XP and distributing them alongside their own OS, but it's perfectly
legal for them to build their own versions of those binaries.

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