>As much as Microsoft would like to kill Wine and ReactOS I agree with what you say about copyright, but this doesn't really make much sense to me. Why would

>As much as Microsoft would like to kill Wine and ReactOS I agree with what you say about copyright, but this doesn't really make much sense to me. Why would Microsoft even care about ReactOS? It's been in development for over a decade and hasn't released a single stable version that's even compatible with Win 2000, let alone Win 8. Wine might be a little more tricky, but even looking at their compatibility page it lists two applications that aren't games (photoshop CS3 and .net framework 3.5) that appear on their "Silver" list of compatible applications (i.e. "Applications with minor issues that do not affect typical usage"). In both cases, the version that is listed is several years out of date from the current version. While I applaud the efforts by both of these teams to create the software that they've created, looking at it objectively, I don't see either one of them as threats to microsoft in any sense of the word. Both projects have had over a decade to prove otherwise, and both have failed to do so. They are still cool and useful projects, but not as something I think microsoft would wish were dead.