The Case For Making Windows XP Open Source (And Why It's A Bad Idea)

If Microsoft made the source code for Windows public then HP (which bought Compaq, which bought DEC) would finally be able to prove Microsoft plagiarized the VMS kernel.
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If that’s all it needs then HP needs to contact me ... I was thoroughly involved in the very similar case of NCR/Comten (ex-Bell Labs) theft of IBM’s VTAM that NCR could never quite get right on their boxes (memory leaks) ,, they were so stupid that they even left in the comments from the original IBM code...

I worked in a very similar division at IBM and the word back then was that Fujitsu had done exactly this - plagiarized IBM code down to the comments.

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