PC Master Race

Ive had some time to look at the timelines and that was definitely in the "era" of Microsoft making poor choices for the end user. Apparently lindows rebranded (who knew lol) and also crawled into existence around the same period.

I think, for good reason, people should be concerned with the direction of any consolidating market. I believe the devs were correct to have the foresight to anticipate this eventual reality.

Also, ReactOS is closely tied to helping WINE and always has been, so it's not a complete waste. It'll just never actually emulate Windows in any stable way.

Exactly what I was curious about considering the goals are similar and could benifit from shared knowledge. Very cool.

As far as the emulation layer discussion goes - I'm not so sure it will matter in the years to come. It needs to simply provide a 'good enough' bridge to other platforms to allow a critical mass to form. After that point those platforms can stand alone as a viable alternative and grow from there. Example: VMWare debacle.