Russian President Interested In Funding ReactOS - Slashdot

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/14/1438223/Russian-President-Interested-In-Funding-ReactOS

An anonymous reader writes "When Russian President Dmitri Medvedev recently visited a high school where ReactOS developer Marat Karatov happens to study, Karatov took the opportunity to present the open-source Windows-a-like to the President, and got a rather more enthusiastic reaction than might be expected — the President found the project interesting, and would consider funding it." Be forewarned that the BBC article takes a few statements by the developers about boot time and compatibility out of context.

ReactOS based on the design of Windows XP/2003

ReactOS® is a free, modern operating system based on the design of Windows® XP/2003. Written completely from scratch, it aims to follow the Windows-NT® architecture designed by Microsoft from the hardware level right through to the application level. This is not a Linux based system, and shares none of the unix architecture.

http://www.reactos.org/en/index.html 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/reactos/