[email protected] wrote:
It's not that it allows this use, it's that it's designed for it.
What does that mean, specifically?
I don't know if there are any libre Windows drivers for anything, but in general, they're proprietary, and the ReactOS project doesn't aim to correct this.
Do they have the resources to do this job?
That being the case, ReactOS used as a completely libre system is pretty much guaranteed to be useless, if it even runs at all, on a real computer (as opposed to a virtual machine).
This seems too discouraging to me. I wouldn't want to discourage any Free Software development because the Free program only runs on a VM (so long as that VM is Free Software; non-free dependencies ought to be replaced, of course). I haven't written an operating system but I imagine it's very difficult to do without depending on some Free Software to build upon, like GNU did. And I imagine the OS will require a lot of time before the system can run on modern hardware. Perhaps ReactOS isn't mature enough to use in daily use now, but the last time I saw GNU/HURD it wasn't mature enough for me to use daily either. However I still think it's fantastic that people are working on GNU/HURD.
