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It may be that they can't release it open source. How much of other peoples' proprietary code is in that kernel? To be clear, I'm not talking illegal theft or
by floating-io 3y ago
It may be that they can't release it open source. How much of other peoples' proprietary code is in that kernel?
To be clear, I'm not talking illegal theft or anything of the sort -- but it's quite possible that they've licensed things over the years (code, patents, ...) and thus cannot open source it.
Not saying this is or isn't true, just something to consider when trying to figure out the why of things.
- chasil 3y agoActually, a lot of the kernel code has leaked in the past, so this question can be independently answered. I know that there were a few leaks at different times. Some of it appears to be here: https://github.com/0x5bfa/NT5.1 https://github.com/0x5bfa/NT5.1
- WorldMaker 3y agoThey did finally kick their fork of Adobe's Type 1 Font Manager out of the Kernel in recent years (somewhere in the middle of Windows 10 as I recall), so that's definitely a complication to expect.