Comment The source would probably be unusable... (Score 1) 571
First consider this, say that MS was to actually release the source to Win2k (all 60 million lines of it), the newlines alone would make up around 4.8 MB of the code.
No matter which version they would release, I'm quite sure that the code would be so large, and so needlessly complex (in a disorganized sloppy kind of way) that there would have to be an open source project just to clean it up. Plus, the years of crud thrown on top of an already weak foundation, I can't imagine.
It would most definitely be a boost to projects like WINE. It has the protential to help ALOT of companies. Will it happen? I doubt it. MS has always been abount closed source. For while, they didn't even like thier employees writing any sort of software unless it was company related.
The bottom line is, if they do it, I'm using it as my entry in the Obfuscated C code contest. ;)
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AdamX
"A witty saying proves nothing." -Voltaire
No matter which version they would release, I'm quite sure that the code would be so large, and so needlessly complex (in a disorganized sloppy kind of way) that there would have to be an open source project just to clean it up. Plus, the years of crud thrown on top of an already weak foundation, I can't imagine.
It would most definitely be a boost to projects like WINE. It has the protential to help ALOT of companies. Will it happen? I doubt it. MS has always been abount closed source. For while, they didn't even like thier employees writing any sort of software unless it was company related.
The bottom line is, if they do it, I'm using it as my entry in the Obfuscated C code contest.
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AdamX
"A witty saying proves nothing." -Voltaire
