What's stopping someone from building an operating system using the Windows NT kernel...

Legal shit aside, in theory, yes you could.
However, the NT kernel is in many ways not like the Linux kernel, chief among them is that there is almost no guarantee of stability of interfaces at the kernel level. Microsoft wants you to use Win32 and other API's that have a degree (or several) of separation between most end-user code and kernel syscalls.
So whatever kernel you decided to use, you'd probably be stuck with for the forseeable future, and then whatever userland you cooked up would probably be incompatible with Win32, which is one of the biggest reasons why you would even want Windows in the first place.
So yeah, you could do it, but it would be a rather silly endeavor. Better to take the Wine route and implement enough Win32/Kernel functionality to run Windows programs, or take the ReactOS route and bring your own custom kernel too.

Cuz Chinks can only copy and steal, they can't create, so even if they steal and copy the microshaft kernal, they are unable to build on top of it.

Until Microsoft tells the government that the chinks are blatantly stealing from a cornerstone American company and massively threatening American hegemony in the tech sector. It stops being about those two companies, you get trade wars between China and the US, or worse.

You could, but why would you want to?

Why are trade wars bad? I thought that's just business-as-usual capitalism.

>Can't you just grab the kernel from any Windows installation and then build userland stuff around it.
I think that's called developing a Windows program, OP.

im retarded, but isnt that basically what bblean is?

Wasn't NT's source code leaked? Also parts of Windows 2k and Windows 10 recently. Hasn't anyone tried building those?

Some Russian on here a few weeks ago claimed to have the XP source code. Whatever happened to that?

is that wild corn bowl

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probably a larp desu. i don't think he ever showed footage of himself compiling xp and then running it in a vm, which would have been the only way to prove his claims

They open sourced 3.1 for non commercial use so there you go, nothing really stopping you.

It's mostly you can't sell or distribute it

Free-market capitalism would be anti-trade war, because it's an instance of government involvement in business and trade.

Trade wars are typically protectionist or ideological in nature, but not capitalist.

>business-as-usual
yeah, but "real" capitalism has never been tried
antitrust law is also a "violation" of capitalism, but it serves to promote competition in FACT, rather than the theoretical.
it doesn't take any particular stroke of genius to see how trade wars are good for competition.
as far as kvetching about abuse of government powers goes, the existence of trade wars fulfills a fundamental libertarian tenet about "international anarchy" which is understood to be a preferable condition to a global hegemony that imposes international "order"

if corporations can be personified and given rights, the "corporation" called a country presumptive would also have rights of "free association" to refuse to do business with other countries, just as paypal has its own presumptive rights to refuse service to any business or person.

individuals also have this right to boycott for what its worth (very little)

That's illegal, unfortunately. Illegal projects usually don't get huge communities started, especially because everyone refuses to host them.

>t. communism will work this time goys

Interestingly one of the devs of the Xemu project (fork of Qemu for xbox emulation) has been eyeballing the ReactOS kernel to replace theirs since it implements a lot of winapi system calls already.

If it's better than the Cromwell Kernel we will see some awesome performace.

Sorry I meant Xqemu

Where?