&gt; One day [ReactOS] may be the only way to use Windows programs without this kind of end-user harassment.<p>There&#x27;s a <i>lot</i> of code sharing between ReactOS and Wine. For the most part, Wine works <i>really</i> well to run Windows software... there&#x27;s no need to run an <i>entire</i> somewhat-Windows-compatible OS that has limited hardware compatibility when you&#x27;re <i>just</i> interested in running a particular Windows application. [0]<p>However, I expect that you neither meant to imply that Wine wasn&#x27;t a good option for running Windows software, nor that work on Wine was likely to stop before work on ReactOS stopped. :)<p>[0] Edit: To be clear, I&#x27;m quite aware that the task that the ReactOS devs face is monumental. I also acknowledge that those devs have put in a <i>lot</i> of good work over the past ~eighteen years.