ReactOS News: Reset, Reboot, Restart, Legal Issues and the Long Road to 0.3 | Linux Today

ReactOS News: Reset, Reboot, Restart, Legal Issues and the Long Road to 0.3

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 28, 2006

[ Thanks to James E
LaBarre
for this link. ]

“There has been a lot of talk about possible tainted code in
ReactOS and or developers that had access to leaked Microsoft
source code. This has caused a lot of speculation about the future
of the ReactOS Project. I’m going to try to put those fears to rest
and explain what has been going on and where we are going to go
from here.

“There was one issue that started this discussion and it related
to clean-room reverse engineering of certain code in
ReactOS…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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