You are saying that ReactOS doesn't use clean room code? Source?

badsectoracula an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I'm saying nothing, i posted the link of the Wine developers claim for why not accepting contributions by ReactOS developers since the post i replied to wrote that ReactOS contributed to Wine.

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snvzz 7 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's common anti-ReactOS slander.

I keep seeing it pop up over the years. Never substantiated.

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snovymgodym 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I believe the integrity of ReactOS's clean room reverse engineering has been called into question in the past when it was found that there were some header or code files with sections that matched leaked Windows Server 2003 code or something like that. Can't recall for sure though.

	▲	userulluipeste 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The article mentions this: "In January 2006, concerns grew about contributors having access to leaked Windows source code and possibly using this leaked source code in their contributions. In response, Steven Edwards strengthened the project’s intellectual property policy and the project made the difficult decision to audit the existing source code and temporarily freeze contributions." The allegations have been taken seriously and since then the procedure for accepting contributions include measures to prevent such further events from occurring. If you or anyone else happen to have any plausible suspicion, then please report it to the ReactOS team, otherwise keeping alive this kind of vague and uncertain connection between some Windows code leakage and ReactOS fits the very definition of FUD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty,_and_doubt Please stop.

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zen928 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They posted their source for their claim (which is different than yours). Click and read it.

	▲	card_zero 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I read it, and "not appropriate for Wine" was a non-answer, so I followed the footnote link and got to the same discussion: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50464#c6 Which isn't really a discussion, it just ends with the same question "why not?".