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Re:Windows Code Samples by mrweasel on Sunday January 15, 2017 @09:27AM (#13404092)
I suspect that large part of Windows, perhaps not the kernel, but many of the required subsystems, are written by 3rd. parties and licensing will prohibit an open source release of Windows.
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Re:Windows Code Samples by xorblurb on Sunday January 15, 2017 @03:46PM (#13406302)
There definitively are some third party components in Windows, but I believe in the core most is either written directly by MS or at least the copyrighted (or its handling) is transferred to them. Parts of an old NT kernel has already been published for a limited audience (mostly education and research, with some additional prereq and with the need of an explicit licence), so probably it can be done again.
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Re:Windows Code Samples by bostand on Sunday January 15, 2017 @06:50PM (#13407234)
The kernel is full of third party libs too.
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