Re:CoreCLR is now open source
by thanksgiving on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @02:51PM
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> Point being, the most common reason companies give for not releasing source for a project is that they have code from contractors that they aren't able to release. That shouldn't be the case with Windows.
There are probably some parts that won't make it like Pinball [old new thing] but it shouldn't be significant at all.
>> Hey everybody asking that the source code be released: The source code was licensed from another company. If you want the source code, you have to go ask them.
[old new thing] blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2012/12/18/10378851.aspx
Point being, the most common reason companies give for not releasing source for a project is that they have code from contractors that they aren't able to release. That shouldn't be the case with Windows.