What if Windows Went Open Source?
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@tonyshowoff said:
ReactOS would work out
Would there even be a point to ReactOS if Windows was open source? Seems about the only reason would be so they could say they finally did something besides an alpha.
I'd guess it would go away. Or did it go away? What a pointless project. That thing was no closer to completion when I first installed it around 2ooo!!
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@tonyshowoff said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
@tonyshowoff said:
ReactOS would work out
Would there even be a point to ReactOS if Windows was open source? Seems about the only reason would be so they could say they finally did something besides an alpha.
Licensing, not just because I am certain Windows would not be released under GPL or anything close to that, but also because things within it are held patent by other people and may not even be available or carry other licensing schemes, and it'd be easier to just rewrite it into one thing, with one licensing scheme.
Or, far better, that ReactOS and other projects like Wine could stop trying to rewrite the Windows code and could focus on replacing the components that Microsoft can't release. Piece by piece they could leverage the MS code to make the whole thing free. Much like the BSD projects did long ago to free UNIX from AT&T.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Or, far better, that ReactOS and other projects like Wine could stop trying to rewrite the Windows code and could focus on replacing the components that Microsoft can't release. Piece by piece they could leverage the MS code to make the whole thing free. Much like the BSD projects did long ago to free UNIX from AT&T.
Well, I think you're just asking for the moon when it comes to a lot of people interested in Windows.
