# ReactOS as a Long-Term Open-Source Windows Reimplementation Project

DevFeed: [ReactOS as a Long-Term Open-Source Windows Reimplementation Project](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/moonshot-part-1-32868.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://reactos.org/blogs/moonshot-part-1/>)

Published: 2014-08-22T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Front Page on ReactOS Website](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/front-page-on-reactos-website.md>)

Topics: [ReactOS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/reactos.md>), [opensource](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/opensource.md>), [Windows](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/windows.md>)

Tags: [free](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/free.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [opensource](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/opensource.md>), [os](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/os.md>), [react](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/react.md>), [reactos](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reactos.md>), [win32](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/win32.md>), [winapi](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/winapi.md>), [windows](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/windows.md>)

## AI overview

The article presents ReactOS as a free, open-source reimplementation of Windows and characterizes it as a long-term project whose goals have become increasingly ambitious as it has achieved success.

## Source excerpt

These days when asked what a moonshot was, most people would respond with blank looks and then ask if it had something to do with the moon. A few more knowledgeable persons might respond that it referred to the Apollo program. Still others would say it referred to any project whose chances of success were low or might take a very long time to show demonstrable success. The Reactive Operator System fell squarely in that third category and it was with some irony that with every success it achieved its future goals became ever loftier.