Comment by riffraff
7 years ago
Because reactos is irrelevant to Microsoft?
The project has been around for 20 years, it's not likely to cause MSFT to lose any revenue any time soon, and there is no large corporation to extract money from in a lawsuit.
It's basically the same reason they don't go after people who have a pirated version of Windows and just show them a "this is fake" warning.
Also, attempting to take it down would surely cause reputation damage to Microsoft. The "old" Microsoft is somewhat infamous. Going after the small guy would not help their image.