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Microsoft Licenses Source

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=tec ... OFT-ANNOUNCEMENT.xml

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Last edited by James, January 27th, 2006 03:14 AM (Edited 1 times)

woot

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wtf? did I understand that correctly? we can... look at the Windows source code?

I think so, but if you purchase it. Not entirley sure though.

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...Open source Windows? That's almost like an oxymoron!

yeah thats cool then does that mean we can make changes to it?

Originally posted by schoi:

yeah thats cool then does that mean we can make changes to it?

That will probably be illegal. Most likey theyll clean up the code and release it, devoid of all its racist slurs and conspiracy theory that were commented in.

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yeah, but only like other big corporations who license it will get access.
although it'll probably leak pretty quickly.
but i doubt you'll be able to modify it and recompile it, didn't they say only portions will be released.

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Originally posted by vierstein:

yeah, but only like other big corporations who license it will get access.
although it'll probably leak pretty quickly.
but i doubt you'll be able to modify it and recompile it, didn't they say only portions will be released.

Ofcourse itll be leaked. I am sure someone is going to leak the whole thing somehow and make some "uber-OS" like a uber-race. Itll be quite rad.

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i don't think the whole code will be leaked.
has any part of XP source ever been leaked?

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