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This article is just wasted bytes since no one can work with the code or even see it. The author may as well be talking about a fictional kernel. Closed source
by gnu8 13y ago
This article is just wasted bytes since no one can work with the code or even see it. The author may as well be talking about a fictional kernel. Closed source isn't worthless because of its terrible code quality, closed source is worthless because it is closed.
- wazoox 13y agoThe guy mentions that it's still possible for academics to get their hands on NT sources. I suppose, however, that it's forbidden to modify or compile them. At some point in time, NT (3.1) was apparently shipped in source form: there was no binary distribution for the first 4 and 8 processors systems back then and you had to compile your kernel yourself on the target machine (after installing the vanilla NT first).
- hga 13y agoXen 1.x development included a paravirtualized Windows XP using this program (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xen#Microsoft_Windows_systems_as_guests http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xen#Microsoft_Windows_systems_a...): "During the development of Xen 1.x, Microsoft Research, along with the University of Cambridge Operating System group, developed a port of Windows XP to Xen — made possible by Microsoft's Academic Licensing Program. The terms of this license do not allow the publication of this port, although documentation of the experience appears in the original Xen SOSP paper."