I'm not aware that Microsoft has put Windows 1 or 2 on Github yet. They have put DOS 1 and 2 on Github. As for Windows components, they have Winfile on Github, as well as the old Windows console and the new terminal they just released. All of these are made available under the MIT license, so obviously Microsoft thinks it's in their interest to open source at least some parts of some versions of Windows, or they wouldn't have already done so.
-------- Original message -------- From: Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com> Date: 9/26/2019 17:39 (GMT-06:00) To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Source code to Windows 9x and ME... On 9/26/2019 6:35 AM, Michael C Robinson wrote: > Is it possible to get the source code to Windows 9x and ME since > Microsoft isn't supporting it anymore? No. > 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? Sounds rather idealistic and void of any facts. Microsoft has not interest to open source ANY part of ANY windows. Even Windows 1.x and 2.x, which are on GitHub now, are still copyrighted. So it all comes down to "you can look but you can't touch", which as far as FreeDOS is concerned (for which any Windows source code be irrelevant to begin with) would be of no interest... Ralf --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
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