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> "nothing to lose by liberating a version of their operating system" Ummm... except for all of the proprietary and valuable IP that is anyway shared by subseq
by mangecoeur 7y ago
> "nothing to lose by liberating a version of their operating system"
Ummm... except for all of the proprietary and valuable IP that is anyway shared by subsequent versions of Windows? It's not like they scrapped every bit of code when they started working on Win8, Win10 etc. Some bits of the control panel are pretty much unchanged since Windows NT!