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| No more than 6 months. |     | 4 | 28.57% |
| No more than a year. |    | 1 | 7.14% |
| No more than 2 years. |    | 2 | 14.29% |
| I think they will pull it off. |    | 7 | 50.00% |
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Funny thing... It never occurred to me to google "free windows-clone OS" keywords...well, whaddayaknow, there is hope that Micro$oft will reconsider that "thy shall install only once" OEM-crap-policy. Maybe even a couple of free-bees? If Bill Gates was dead he'd be turning around in his grave. Maybe his grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-children will NOT be financially well-situated.
I think that I might be out-of-touch with OS scene lately. I don't know how new this ReactOS really is, but I'm giving up on windows, and this baby looks just perfect.
Did any of you guys had any experience with it?
They claim that it is windows competible.
I wonder how long they'll last before mighty MS storms in.
P.S.
I give them 6 months.
I think that I might be out-of-touch with OS scene lately. I don't know how new this ReactOS really is, but I'm giving up on windows, and this baby looks just perfect.
Did any of you guys had any experience with it?
They claim that it is windows competible.
I wonder how long they'll last before mighty MS storms in.
P.S.
I give them 6 months.
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Well, I remember reading about [search]ReactOS[/search] in a Daniweb blog a couple of months back. I don't think Microsoft can sue it because they are taking steps so that they do not use any illegal means to develop this OS. And since it has been around for 10 years, I do not think it has got anything to worry about along those lines. That said, I am not a legal expert in these things, so there may be other issues that need to be addressed. But whether it will make huge dent in the Microsoft OS market share remains to be seen. Honestly I do not think so.
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its been going since 1997 and they recently completed a full code audit so people could check they didnt steal windows code (which is a dumb idea as its opensource so MS could just check) so no i think that:
by the time vista takes hold (2009) i think well have full Win95 compatibility
by the time fiji (vistas sucessor) (2012) : well have full NT4 / 98 compatibility
by the time vienna (fijis sucessor) (2017): well have full 2K / XP compatibility
basically i think we need to crank it up a notch guys
cos by then welll all be like 30
by the time vista takes hold (2009) i think well have full Win95 compatibility
by the time fiji (vistas sucessor) (2012) : well have full NT4 / 98 compatibility
by the time vienna (fijis sucessor) (2017): well have full 2K / XP compatibility
basically i think we need to crank it up a notch guys
cos by then welll all be like 30 Last edited by jbennet; Nov 15th, 2006 at 8:50 pm.
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Agreed completely. It reminds me of Win95. 
Oh, and for the record, another name of Fiji (Vista's sucessor) is Blackcomb.
Oh, and for the record, another name of Fiji (Vista's sucessor) is Blackcomb.
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That's why they won't last (at least not as a VIABLE alternative ).
Reminds me of Lindows, who tried the same and were stupid enough to get themselves indicted for trademark infringement in the process.
And if these kids claim openly to be a Windows clone, they could face the same fate if they ever get their act together and produce something that's less than a decade behind the times.
).Reminds me of Lindows, who tried the same and were stupid enough to get themselves indicted for trademark infringement in the process.
And if these kids claim openly to be a Windows clone, they could face the same fate if they ever get their act together and produce something that's less than a decade behind the times.
As people are clearly allowed to attack me but I'm not allowed to defend myself, I no longer post to this site.
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Originally Posted by proliant_fan 
basically i think we need to crank it up a notch guys
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Microsoft still charges $20 for MS-DOS 6.22.
BTW, I'm sure MS will think of something to sue for.
BTW, I'm sure MS will think of something to sue for.
I say what I see. If you find my words offensive, then you find my reality offensive.
by the way, if MS shut down ReactOS then WINE (ReactOS uses wine API and libs to run widnows apps) will die out meaning Linux will suffer bigtime as no newbs willl be able to run windows apps
reactos seem to be treading carefully enough IMHO as they have done the audit and have an interesting article on thier site saying that they comply with the windows EULA by reverse engineering in a certain way
reactos seem to be treading carefully enough IMHO as they have done the audit and have an interesting article on thier site saying that they comply with the windows EULA by reverse engineering in a certain way
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I've tried version 0.3 (alpha). Average uptime: 5 to 10 minutes. No, I'm not joking. Somtimes it would die after a specific event, other times it would just randomly bomb out for no apparent reason. Then it's the Black Screen of Death (not even an exception code). It crashed during the install a couple of times too. which is never a good sign.
I installed it on a 1.3 GHz AMD (original Athlon) system that I've sold now. Maybe it was some kind of incompatability with the AMD chip I was using, but after ten years you'd think they would have got on top of things like that. Unununium is my favourite OS project, so I've joined the development team. It's got no kernel. I'd like to see someone try and sue those guys for stealing others ideas :lol: .
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I installed it on a 1.3 GHz AMD (original Athlon) system that I've sold now. Maybe it was some kind of incompatability with the AMD chip I was using, but after ten years you'd think they would have got on top of things like that. Unununium is my favourite OS project, so I've joined the development team. It's got no kernel. I'd like to see someone try and sue those guys for stealing others ideas :lol: .
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