Can they honestly pull this off and make a free (as in freedom) windows compatible OS? Or are they just wasting their time and their development efforts could be better used to improve Linux?
Is it a meme?
Jeremiah Nelson
Luke Wilson
They could if there were some financing. As it stands now it is just a hobby project.
Austin Hall
Desktop Windows will be uncommon and archaic by the time this is released stable.
We are already near that point to begin with. For 99% of users the only reason to pick Windows over Linux is to use one of a few proprietary drivers. Once those fall, desktop Linux will be the standard in ~18 months.
Lincoln Sanchez
Financing for what? Some guy sitting on an office chair and typing on a keyboard needs "financing"?
Easton Baker
Yes? As it stands now, they do this on their free time. With a company and money behind, they could dedicate to it.
Gabriel Murphy
yes
Logan Mitchell
that's the whole point, the main reason to use this is because microsoft has stopped supporting old versions of windows but people still have a need to run legacy applications and don't want to pay microsoft's inflated prices for legacy support
Kevin Ortiz
>Can they honestly pull this off and make a free (as in freedom) windows compatible OS?
Yes, but it takes a lot of time because they need to apply reverse engineering to windows in order to avoid a lawsuit.
>Or are they just wasting their time and their development efforts could be better used to improve Linux?
ReactOS devs constantly collaborate with the WINE project.
Jaxon Morris
If I could run Fallout 3, Morrowind and Legends of Aranna, I'd ditch Windows in a heartbeat.
Luis Cooper
you can run OpenMW on linux for Morrowind