[raybbr]

Maybe instead of "has open sourced the code", you meant to say, "has made the source code available under NDA", which would be correct.

Yeah, that IS what I meant. Sorry for using the wrong terminology.

In any case, MS "made the source code available" so companies could interface with Windows for industrial control. That, coupled with the average user that is used to seeing Windows, is why the GUI is needed and line commands will never replace Windows as an interface with PLC's and the Unix computers that run machines.

[dayglored]

Ah, glad we cleared that up. :)

> In any case, MS "made the source code available" so companies could interface with Windows for industrial control.

Do you have any links or other references, to explain that better? I'm not aware of Microsoft making Windows source code available to industrial control companies. They may have done so, and if so I'd be interested to know more -- I designed industrial control computers in the 1980's and still have some interest in them, even though I've moved on since then.

Thanks in advance for the references...