[PLUG] Source code to Windows 9x and ME...
Bill Barry
bill at billbarry.org
Thu Sep 26 13:57:12 UTC 2019
On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 8:36 AM Michael C Robinson
<michael at robinson-west.com> 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.
Bill
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