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> If you put the source code for Windows 95 online, you'd be sued into a pile of ashes by MS within 10 minutes. The Windows NT 4 source code exists in multiple
by smitelli 2y ago
> If you put the source code for Windows 95 online, you'd be sued into a pile of ashes by MS within 10 minutes.
The Windows NT 4 source code exists in multiple public repos on GitHub, and the one from the first Google result has been there for at least four years.
- userbinator 2y ago...and the ones for later versions are easily found on GitHub too --- GitHub, which is now owned by Microsoft. On the one hand, great, but on the other, that's how much (little) they care about Windows as a source of revenue.
- account42 2y agoAncient Windows NT code being available hardly threatens Microsoft's revenue from Windows sales.