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How would they prove the developer signed an EULA? I know I haven't been made to use Windows since the Vista era. And even then, that was a work computer so I never agreed to anything.
The rest I agree with. Windows is trash, why bother cloning it? Wine exists to run applications that are desired but don't have Linux equivalents.
The problem wouldn't be the developers but the reverse engineers.
Though there are of course ways to RE without looking at what the original system does.
If any of the developers have a Microsoft account with their legal name and have used that to set up a Windows 10 computer (highly likley) they can be sued. Also my point is not only is Windows trash the fundamental technologies its based on are trash too, Unix Based systems will always be superior to NT/DOS based systems.