Besides being a huge witch hunt for code proprietors and a hassle to convince them to relicense, it also involves digging out source code that might not exist anymore. This happens.
czw., 26 wrz 2019, 15:37 użytkownik Michael C Robinson < mich...@robinson-west.com> napisał: > Is it possible to get the source code to Windows 9x and ME since > Microsoft isn't supporting it anymore? > One would want to get the source code and then open source it of > course. Even Windows 3.1 and Windows 3.11 is closed source. Surely, > Microsoft could release pre 9x Windows? It wouldn't hurt Microsoft at > all since Windows > is squarely NT based now where many modern systems won't even support > DOS let alone DOS based Windows. I realize it would probably be very > expensive to get Microsoft to cough up the source code, but has anyone > even looked into this? > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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