Why Would You Need?

The Microsoft Platform SDK, the Microsoft Driver Development kit, and the Microsoft Installable File System Kit if you weren't developing for Windows? No, I'm not talking about the Wine project either but Reactos which is a free/open source operating system that is intended to be binary compatible with Windows 2000 and later. It's programmed as you'd expect in c with some parts in C++.

Eleven years on from its inception as a revived version of FreeWindows, it is at version 0.4 and in alpha though the next version 0.5 will be beta. I'd, Microsoft is probably watching with interest or even looking for ways to halt what could become a major threat. The developers have taken great steps to exclude code from other sources (no doubt after the SCO debacle where a company called SCO claimed that Linux had their code in- but SCO lost though it took quite an effort).

It doesn't take too much thought to realize that Reactos could equally be a threat to desktop Linux as well. If an open source Windows were available then why would you ever need Linux except for servers? I think that's a year or two off anyway but definitely a project to watch They're looking for developers and testers so if you're interested...

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