On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 6:26 AM, Pablo Manalastas <[email protected]> wrote: > > --- On Thu, 4/9/09, Andy Sy <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Microsoft, as of late, is also starting to "get" open source. > > I am waiting for Microsoft to truly open source (as in GPL) > Windows XP. After all, they have discontinued support for it. > Why don't they just give Windows XP source code to the community? > Making it GPL would be best.
Not possible. There is far too much third-party licensed code inside Windows that Microsoft doesn't have the right to redistribute. They would have to rip out this code and document how to replace it, which is a non-trivial undertaking. So it escapes me why they would spend potentially a lot of money to open-source something. -- Orlando Andico +63.2.976.8659 | +63.920.903.0335 _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
