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Re:Airyx OS by bobsomers on Thursday August 05, 2021 @12:29AM (#28069880)
> Hard to see how this can be done legally.

Why? Things like Wine and Proton exist and Windows is proprietary.

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Re:Airyx OS by Jiocus on Thursday August 05, 2021 @06:59AM (#28072055)
Even ReactOS, an open-source implementation of Windows exists.
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Re:Airyx OS by PaulDavisThe1st on Thursday August 05, 2021 @09:51AM (#28073725)
How many years has the Wine project been running?

There is absolutely no equivalent for macOS frameworks. GNUStep is a tiny part of the picture, and in addition has not kept up with the fairly radical changes that Apple has introduced to the frameworks that GNUStep does correspond to.

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Re:Airyx OS by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday August 05, 2021 @10:22AM (#28074113)
That's a practical question, not related to the legal question.
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Re:Airyx OS by PaulDavisThe1st on Thursday August 05, 2021 @11:03AM (#28074707)
The legal question I was referring was related to my perception that the goal was "source code compatibility for macOS applications" now, not after some essentially unbounded engineering task.

That may have been incorrect.

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