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This has always been an admirable project; I just fear that the world has moved on.

A competitive kernel alternative to Windows seemed like a necessity 6 years ago. Today, everyone I know who would be interested in ReactOS is OS agnostic and can exist without any one operating system in particular.

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I disagree, the future of windows is why ReactOS is important. For the same reason DosBox is important, to run legacy apps.

10 years from now, how are you going to run those XP apps that aren't compatible with even windows 7, let alone three more cycles of ugprades.

That's what Wine is for; ReactOS borrows a ton of their code. I do wish there were more progress with Wine on Windows for 16-bit apps at least.

Wine can't run Windows device drivers, but that's a pretty narrow use case.

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