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I'd believe them if they open sourced Windows. They could still keep their web platforms (Office365, Azure, etc.) closed but it would be a huge statement to ope

I'd believe them if they open sourced Windows. They could still keep their web platforms (Office365, Azure, etc.) closed but it would be a huge statement to open up Windows 10. (Never going to happen, not just for philosophical reasons, but I'm sure legal reasons too)

leeter 8y ago
I think the biggest issue would be the audit. Recall that NT started out as part of OS/2 which is owned by IBM. I suspect that Edge/IE has similar issues, because it was evolved from NCSA Mosaic it probably has legal issues preventing it from being open sourced. I know for a fact that the ZIP component of the windows shell would be an issue as that is definitely licensed to Microsoft instead of being owned by.
- dkersten 8y ago
  Open what they can and keep binary blobs of stuff they can’t?
ksk 8y ago
GitHub was closed source, so its a good fit.