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1. edgyqu+(OP)[view] [source] 2023-06-10 17:48:02
ReactOS actually got sued by Microsoft for stealing code and one of their proofs was a piece of code (can’t remember exactly what it did) that basically matched the same function Windows code with a few things changed.

It was ASM code I think, and their defense was that there was basically one way to write a function that does this.

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2. moyix+m9[view] [source] 2023-06-10 18:29:38
>>edgyqu+(OP)
I think you're misremembering here; as far as I know (and as far as I can tell from searching just now) MS has never sued ReactOS. There was a claim made back in 2006 on the mailing list that a portion of syscall.S was copied, and this caused ReactOS to do their own audit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactOS#Internal_audit

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