On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 8:36 AM Michael C Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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? > Richard Stallman apparently broached this subject to a Microsoft vice president when he visited there to give a talk. https://stallman.org/articles/microsoft-talk.html It might happen someday.
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