It's not as much hurting a nonexistant bottom line by now, but chasing down
every owner of every piece in these versions od Windows and convincing them
to re-license their stuff. It's a huge hassle.

czw., 26 wrz 2019, 15:37 użytkownik Michael C Robinson <
mich...@robinson-west.com> napisał:

> 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?
>
>
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