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What would be the benefit of such a thing? It would be a disaster from a security standpoint in the short term.
by partiallypro 8y ago
What would be the benefit of such a thing? It would be a disaster from a security standpoint in the short term.
- ocdtrekkie 8y agoIndeed, it's way too much code for the security community to review in a timely fashion. I don't think Microsoft views Windows as something they need to keep closed source for profitability reasons, but there's probably huge risks in open sourcing it. I'd far rather they look to open source individual components one at a time. Most of the modern UWP apps of theirs they could easily open source, for instance. Individual components of Windows may be reasonably open sourcing them as they go through and upgrade and enhance them.