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Since they doesn't go into any specifics, i suspect the same as wine?

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It's been some time since I've looked at ReactOS, but it's a bit more than that.

ReactOS actually uses some of the wine libs, and the two projects work together.

IIRC, ReactOS actually aims for driver compatibility, so you should be able to completely replace Windows with React.

Well, they don't "work together" - Wine devs avoid ReactOS code and devs like the plague. However, Wine is happy for ReactOS to use their DLLs - so Wine does Win32 and ReactOS does the lower, weirder layers that Wine doesn't bother with.

> Wine devs avoid ReactOS code and devs like the plague

Is this due to any patent/copyright issues?

Copyright worries, I believe. Wine is paranoid of contributors who may have looked too closely at Windows or reverse-engineered it in potentially risky ways. I am vague on details.

Also, Wine is LGPL and ReactOS is GPL, so no code can flow in that direction.

uaygsfdbzf, you are marked as dead. I believe this is due to a somewhat brusk comment you made earlier, but your other comments deserve to be seen.

I'm glad I read this comment. Maybe my basically driver-defunct M-Audio Firewire 410 can be revived using ReactOS. Cool.

Wine works better. For example, it has better 3D support since it can leverage the host stack. Some non-3D apps like Java run better under Wine too.

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