Michael Robinson wrote: > Microsoft has abandoned the dos/Windows 3.x combo, Windows 95 all > versions, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, Windows NT all versions, > Windows 2000, and Windows Millenium.
Windows 2000 (NT5) has over a year of support left, hardly abandoned. An OS is made up of many technologies. MS couldn't open source older versions of Windows any easier than IBM could OS/2. There is a lot of 3rd party licensed code in there, and some code is still used in current OS's from the old day. Look at the Fonts control panel applet in Win 3.11 and then in Vista for example. It's identical (and pathetic). And Vista/7 has enormous amounts of NT code still in it. > The government could step in... <snip> Oh snap! -- m0gely _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
