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Windows goes open source? Microsoft plays coy
InfoWorld ^ | April 2, 2015 | (none)

Posted on 04/02/2015 2:41:35 PM PDT by dayglored

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Windows 3.1 maybe


21 posted on 04/02/2015 3:31:00 PM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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22 posted on 04/02/2015 3:53:35 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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As long as my collection of SysInternals stuff keeps working,...

You got that right. Those utilities are great.

23 posted on 04/02/2015 4:21:44 PM PDT by ken in texas
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I just finished porting PolarSSL...er “mbed TLS” (an open source crypto library for embedded systems) to Windows 3.1....it wasn’t that bad, considering the G_d-awful x86 memory segmentation model...the only thing I’m worried about is the RSA code—SS ==== DS, and it’s a shared library, so SS != DS!


24 posted on 04/02/2015 10:55:22 PM PDT by __rvx86 (¡SI SE PUEDE! (Cruz 2016!))
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Almost 20 years ago, there was an experimental IPv6 stack driver for NT4. It was released as an open-source driver by their R&D division, since they were at peak monopoly then...(coughcoughinternetexplorer4coughcough)

The documentation is still there if you look deep enough, but the code may well be long gone...

For Windows 2000/XP, the IPv6 stack became mature enough (and feature-complete by 2000, but only provisionally approved for production environments in 2001, fully so in 2006)—they just took it private...


25 posted on 04/02/2015 11:03:37 PM PDT by __rvx86 (¡SI SE PUEDE! (Cruz 2016!))
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