Comment by iforgotpassword

It seems like you're personally offended by the project. If some of the code that got presumably stolen is yours I can definitely understand.

Looking at how slowly that project is moving though I think your conclusion is right: They don't care. In some other comment you mentioned how the project seems to be stuck in the 2000/XP area. How relevant does that make this project today? But whether it's based on stolen code or not, it seems like the right choice to focus on getting that completed before moving on to everything that came after. And after all, Windows isn't just the kernel. They have to implement a lot of user space too, because software out there might assume it's available and behaving in very certain ways. Just an explorer clone sounds like a mammoth task on its own.

I still find the project very interesting and overly ambitious, even if code was stolen. I think at their current pace, reactos won't become usable before operating systems became largely irrelevant and everything runs in the cloud. Everyone still working on it today is probably just doing it for the challenge.