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Re: [LUG] OT: Windows XP

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Subject: Re: [LUG] OT: Windows XP
From: Simon Avery <digdilem@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 22:49:08 +0000
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On 14 February 2014 22:43, Adrian Midgley <amidgley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

How about move all desktops to Linux...

As an aside, I stumbled across this today; http://www.reactos.org/

An independant attempt to make an OS that is like Windows in every way, but isn't.

Oh, I understand why you would want to inherit the huge software base by being binary compatible for windows executables, but... Why not just use windows if that's your aim?

And I can't help thinking they'll get so far along this track until Microsoft quietly say, "You can't do that, you know." and throw a few dozen legal reasons in front of Reactos and the whole project will go down the pan.

Or am I just grumpy and pessimistic because of the weather?

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Follow-up: Re: [LUG] OT: Windows XP
- From: bad apple

References:
- [LUG] OT: Windows XP
  - From: Simon Waters
- Re: [LUG] OT: Windows XP
  - From: bad apple
- Re: [LUG] OT: Windows XP
  - From: Adrian Midgley

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