ReactOS team will never be finished working on ReactOS, sadly. Or not sadly, depending on how we look at it:
They started before my little sister was even born and now she moved away with her friend.
Anyway. ReactOS is a friendly project with a big goal.
Re-programming Windows from scratch is a huge undertaking.
Kudos to all the layman programmers which are working on it.
Personally, I think ReactOS is a neat project.
And in theory, it can be used to replace Windows for special purposes already.
Especially, if licensing fees are an issue.
Or if newer hardware becomes incompatible with the real thing.
Just think of BIOS/CSM.. ReactOS could provide XP compatibility on UEFI-only machines.
Maybe it will even get binary translators/emulators to ensure Win32/x86 compatibility on future x86_64 CPUs. It's all possible.
For example :
Imagine, if you once wrote a machine control software for Win9x/NT4/2k but these real OSes are no longer available legally.
Instead of telling your customers it's their business to get hands on used copies of them,
you could bundle ReactOS with your machinery/control software.
If they go in the hundreds, it might be worth it.
And if we consider how crappy Win CE used to be, it's not a far stretch, even. 😉
"Time, it seems, doesn't flow. For some it's fast, for some it's slow.
In what to one race is no time at all, another race can rise and fall..." - The Minstrel
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