Now let's boot the ReactOS VMPlayer image to take a quick look. In my opinion, I think emulating Windows is a bad idea for an OS in general, but if you're one of those people who happen to have an application that you can't find an open source alternative for, and you can't run under Wine, this may be the thing that gets you out of Microsoft licensing hell. You can just boot ReactOS under VMPlayer and you won't have to steal Windows.