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The ReactOS team might gain some insights from this leak...

and they get prison time.

If they copy code line for line yes, but might get insights they otherwise couldn't have. Or just pretend they happened to come up with solutions by themselves.

https://github.com/reactos/reactos#contributing--

" Legal notice: If you have seen proprietary Microsoft Windows source code (including but not limited to the leaked Windows NT 3.5, NT 4, 2000 source code and the Windows Research Kernel), your contribution won't be accepted because of potential copyright violation. "

That's a really honest approach, thanks for posting it. I stand corrected!

Edit: Might of course also just be covering their backs legally... but who am I to say.

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