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(thanks for not pulling down my karma :))

I am in fact an open-source developer, but there's some business case behind each of my project. I just don't see a business case behind ReactOS.

I know about WINE (never used it though), and it makes at least a bit of sense to me, unlike ReactOS.

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Not everyone is driven by a business case. Some people want to help feed the poor, some just want to tend their rose garden all year long, and some want to provide a compatible but open source alternative to the OS provided by Microsoft.

a project of this scale needs proper funding, otherwise it would take forever (which actually seems to be the case).

the guys are building a competition to Microsoft. Some may do it for the pleasure of doing that, but I see it as a dead-end, as there is no business driver.

Think of Ubuntu and the money they get from support, then think about having the legacy of Windows.

if I try to think as a typical Windows sysadmin, I would just use Windows. For those guys, ReactOS is not bringing any benefit, and they will for sure work with a product that they know already. They would only see ReactOS as a source of unpredictable problems and costs.

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