On: A Kernel Engineer at Microsoft's Answer to “What Do You Think about ReactOS?”

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For MS's WSL, according to their devs, they only allowed themselves to read the documentation (external API). They didn't allow themselves to look at the code. Different case but also a form of reverse engineering.

It's the "internal data structures, macros" stuff that is problematic.

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They looked at syscall surface primarily.