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Re:A Kernel Engineer at Microsoft's Answer to “What Do You T... by reuben_scratton on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @12:19PM (#20345737)
I hadn't heard of ReactOS but a quick glance at it's kernel source on GitHub and it's OBVIOUSLY straight from Windows.

Not that I work for MS but I used to work on NT graphics drivers and had a copy of the leaked NT kernel source for a while (strictly for personal interest!). This so very like what I remember.

IMHO such blatant theft shouldn't really go unpunished.

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Re:A Kernel Engineer at Microsoft's Answer to “What Do You T... by ForHackernews on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @12:37PM (#20345939)
I kind of doubt this is the case, because more than 10 years ago they had accusations of this sort and undertook an extensive audit and cleanroom rewrite: https://www.reactos.org/reset-reboot-restart-legal-issues-an...
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