QuadooScript
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QuadooScript
@QuadooScript
The name I wanted to use was taken, so I'm posting under the name of a scripting language that I created. Pretty random, right?































@OpenAI At this point, I would gladly pay an additional $20/month to have access to an uncensored, unfettered, unfiltered version of ChatGPT. This could be the most amazing technology ever, but the restrictions are so frustrating that sometimes I want to cancel my subscription.

A group of developers tried rebuilding Windows from scratch. Without Microsoft’s code. 🤯 They called it ReactOS. 🖥️ > Started in 1996 as FreeWin95. > Goal: make Windows free and open source. > Developers argued for years about the design. > Barely wrote any actual code. > Scrapped everything and restarted in 1998. > Renamed the project ReactOS. > Built as a reaction to Microsoft’s monopoly. > Designed to look like Windows XP. > Start menu. Taskbar. File Explorer. > Almost identical to real Windows. > But the real goal was much crazier. > Binary compatibility. > Meaning real Windows .exe files should just run. > No emulators. No virtual machines. > Firefox worked. LibreOffice worked. Adobe Reader worked. > But there was one huge problem. > They couldn’t legally copy Microsoft’s code. > One developer studied Windows behavior. > Another developer rewrote it from scratch. > A process called clean-room engineering. > Extremely slow. Extremely difficult. > Nearly 30 years later… > 300 contributors. > 15 million lines of code. > ReactOS is still in alpha today. Most open-source projects replace apps. ReactOS tried replacing Windows itself. 🔥


















