Mitchell Brown wrote: > I have to agree - this might happen some day. When Hell freezes over!! > Seriously, Microsoft has no reason to it. The Microsoft fanboys will > still purchase Windows no matter how insecure or unstable it is. > Because, to alot of them, Linux just screams "HARDDD!!!" and they > don't want to take the time to learn it. Does this guy honestly think > Bill Gates is just gonna open source it? Man... > > > But lets just imagine if this did happen. The world would, literally, > change forever. Even people who have no interest in how the OS works, > they'd be effected. There'd be dozens and even hundreds of spinoffs > (www.windowsdistrowatch.com OMG can you imagine?!) of it and it would > be chaos. Microsoft would instantly regret the decision as the Linux > zealots would get their sometimes "grubby" (no offence) paws into it > and start changing it all around. > > As cool as it would be -- in reality - who really wants opensource Windows? > O_o
Just a note that the blog author indicates ÏF"ms went this way, they would likely have a a license similar if not their own license similar to OpenSolaris (CDDL), which allows for open source contributions but still gives them the finally ok and control. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
