> I'm not sure reverse engineering Windows stack on Linux is very effective way of spending our civilizations engineering resources. I don't think it is a ques

> I'm not sure reverse engineering Windows stack on Linux is very effective way of spending our civilizations engineering resources. I don't think it is a question of a pool of resource that can be reallocated, however, as in a business. The people who work on reverse engineering Windows presumably do so, because they are interested in doing so. They might not be interested in building something new. The choice might therefore not be between doing this, and doing something new, but between doing this and not doing anything at all.