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To: dayglored
Microsoft HAD to allow XP to live for this, otherwise this would have been Linux's first huge strike against them in the consumer market.

Glad to see XP sticking around, especially if still being sold OEM, but they should have woke up DOS/9x and open-sourced it for these things to get an open community started...

39 posted on 04/05/2008 12:47:39 AM PDT by roamer_1 (Globalism is just Socialism in a business suit.)
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To: roamer_1
There is an open source DOS -- FreeDOS.

Not sure what you meant by the "9x" in this context -- Windows 95 and 98? That, granted, has zero chance of being open sourced.

41 posted on 04/05/2008 12:53:54 AM PDT by ThePythonicCow (By their false faith in Man as God, the left would destroy us. They call this faith change.)
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