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ReactOS has not copied one line from Windows source code. It is a clean room creation that allows Windows programs to run.
Yes and no, it is also a product of a good part of reverse engineering that also does not work very well. I think that MS is going to release Windows XP as Open Source before, as it has already done with MSDOS, that ReactOS is going to work as it should. Besides, who today is going to want an imitation of Windows XP, without good compatibility with current applications? Browse with IE?
It is something, even if it is barely above a hobby project in terms of end product.