On Thu, 16 May 2024 at 15:27, Michał Dec via Freedos-user
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> Absolutely. Think of all the yachts and summer homes they're losing by
> not donating a scrap of 8086 assembly to the general public. Think of
> all those poor shareholders and millionaires.
Exactly.
This is why I do not
Absolutely. Think of all the yachts and summer homes they're losing by
not donating a scrap of 8086 assembly to the general public. Think of
all those poor shareholders and millionaires.
Michał
W dniu 15.05.2024 o 22:29, Roger via Freedos-user pisze:
Microsoft is not willing to go to even
On Thu, 16 May 2024 at 10:07, tom ehlert via Freedos-user
wrote:
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> there is no need for Microsoft to search its own archives.
> MSDOS 6.22 source leaked to the internet some 22 years ago, and a plenty of
> people have it.
Then MS would need to check this over, check it was correct and
without
On Wed, 15 May 2024 at 21:31, Roger via Freedos-user
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> Excuse #1, there's no money being acquired for going over code for
> releasing as open source.
Agreed.
It is willing to release stuff it happens to find or others happen to
find in order to sweeten the FOSS fanatics a bit, but it
> I think, applying Hanlon's Razor here, that this was a chance
> discovery by someone else, and led to the release. Microsoft is not
> willing to go to even the minimal effort of searching its own archives
> for the other versions to release them, but if someone else finds the
> code, it will
