On 9/26/2019 6:35 AM, Michael C Robinson wrote:
Is it possible to get the source code to Windows 9x and ME since Microsoft isn't supporting it anymore?
No.
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?
Sounds rather idealistic and void of any facts. Microsoft has not interest to open source ANY part of ANY windows. Even Windows 1.x and 2.x, which are on GitHub now, are still copyrighted. So it all comes down to "you can look but you can't touch", which as far as FreeDOS is concerned (for which any Windows source code be irrelevant to begin with) would be of no interest...
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