Not so long ago there was a leak of windows’ source code, up to xp and 2003 serv...

ranma42 · 2025-10-12T09:28:32 1760261312

IIRC ReactOs forbids you from contributing if you had access to the windows source code in some way shape or form.

cardanome · 2025-10-12T12:04:33 1760270673

They need to train an LLM with the windows source code and ask it to write an windows clone.

Apparently copyright law only applies for humans, generative AI gets away with stealing because there is too much monetary interest involved in looking the other way.

justinclift · 2025-10-12T13:31:40 1760275900

Wow, so you're saying "Windows but with even less reliability and more security problems plus tech debt"?

I don't think the world really needs that. :)

executesorder66 · 2025-10-13T09:58:38 1760349518

>"Windows but with even less reliability and more security problems plus tech debt"

To me that just sound like it will make ReactOS much more Windows-like. So it's probably a win for the project. \s

alganet · 2025-10-12T12:41:32 1760272892

Leaks like this actually slow down ReactOS development.

The project is supposed to be a clean-room reverse engineering effort. If you even see Windows code, you are compromised, and should not work on ReactOS.