This would be so fucking comfy if it actually worked

This would be so fucking comfy if it actually worked
Why isn't anyone throwing money at this project?

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>Why isn't anyone throwing money at this project?
Because they steal most of their work from the WINE project. Also who seriously wants to throw money at a free Windows clone? Microsoft? Apple? Google? $RANDOM_LISUX_DISTRO?

>steal
>from an open source project
get fucked, retard

>being this mad about the truth
ok user. i know the truth hurts but there is a reason why the wine project is not working closely with them anymore yet React still has that as a selling point. "We're legit! We used to work closely with the wine project! We promise!"

the point is that there's no such thing as stealing from an open source project. the GPL completely eliminates the possibility of source theft outside of people or companies that do not share their source changes.

checkmate, retard

>Steal
Most of the RE work comes from them and gets ported into wine, they have much smarter people working on it, I.e. Alex ionescu

Why would I want to use a shitty skin that people only like because muh nostalgia?

Holy shit - win2k fits into a 70 mb zip file!

I unironically do not understand why the Russian government (apparently) didn't give them money.
The boost to the Russian economy that a locally produced Windows clone could provide is insane.

>Why isn't anyone throwing money at this project?
Most people don't understand how catastrophic Win10 is yet.

The whole point of open source is to share your code with others so they can modify it and improve upon it.

An even better question, why aren't you contributing code to this project?

It's not a skin, nigger. It's an open source version of NT.

If you think Windows 7 is much better, you have no idea what you're talking about.
Windows peaked at 2000, though XP is still somewhat tolerable.

>An even better question, why aren't you contributing code to this project?
The vast majority of devs will never have anything approaching the required skills.

I've contributed to it. Is something broken? Can you fix it? Then do it. Anyone with minimal OS development experience can work to better React OS. I'd like to believe that about 10% of Sup Forums is smart enough to do this.

OS dev is ludicrously difficult. I speak from personal (failed) experience.

Really? I've been doing it for a couple years and it's easy for me. Everything is logical and structured as compared to the tangled cluster fuck that is web development or something. You learn C and assembly once and they just work as intended. With JS you're learning new shit all the time and it never works like you want it to, and has a syntax so ugly it could make babies cry.

>Everything is logical and structured
Yeah, if you're a supergenius who can debug the most obscure shit, all while remembering some completely random memory address somewhere.

>Sup Forumsfags can remember all their games
>tumblr tards can remember their 9000 genders
>Sup Forums can remember every jew in their government
>Sup Forums can remember the names of all their favorite tranny porn stars
>Sup Forums can't even remember the code they write or debug their programs
Pathetic.

It wouldn't benefit oligarchs

Because no one sees ReactOS as a purposeful project. If you are desperate to get some closed-source windows software running you should use WINE.

Collaboration on getting software working with WINE Is accelerating thanks to things like Docker.

Linux or BSD are the only operating systems that the people who give a shit about operating systems and software care to work on.

I wouldn't be surprised if there are talented developers working on ReactOS but their effort is wasted.

can it replace my old gaymes win7 vm?

I'm using the dev early release and it's pretty useable for my use cases.
(95/98 games and to interface with some legacy metalworking stuff.

It's GPL btw.

Devs commit to a GPL project because they know it will be safe to anyone to use as long as they respect source redistribution.
If they didn't want anyone to "steal" it they would of made it apache or some other permissive license and them remaining the sole proprieter.

>steal from open source GPL

Even they would benefit from a project that would transform the global software industry almost overnight if it truly came to fruition. And the money needed is far less than for, say, resource extraction...