I would be interested - mostly in hearing their excuses. And I would like to suggest that if they are really interested in speaking to us, and they want to get on our good side, that they bring along some DVDs of the NT and WinCE source trees to distribute, under the template Microsoft Community License as is where is - which is as near to being GPL as Microsoft can stand.
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