On Thu, 16 May 2024 at 15:27, Michał Dec via Freedos-user <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > Absolutely. Think of all the yachts and summer homes they're losing by > not donating a scrap of 8086 assembly to the general public. Think of > all those poor shareholders and millionaires.
Exactly. This is why I do not accept the claims of my younger and (IMHO) more gullible colleagues that MS is a different company today from how it used to be, and now it is a friend and ally of FOSS. I know for a fact that one of the major Linux vendors is entirely based on Microsoft Office 365 internally and uses it for all communications, scheduling etc. I challenged them on it and they said that they had a contract that said MS would not look at any confidential info! In writing! So it was 100% safe and secure. I told them of the companies whose IP and code MS had stolen: STAC, Central Point, and others. I told them of MS faking Win3.1 crashing on DR-DOS, for which it was found guilty in court: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code https://www.geoffchappell.com/notes/windows/archive/aard/index.htm I told them that Bill Gates personally lied to Paul Brainerd of Aldus and got Aldus to cancel its new Windows word processor -- then went back to the office and ordered WinWord as a rush job, which is why WinWord 1.x was junk. I told them of MS stealing Quicktime code for Video for Windows and having to pay Apple damages, which the marketing lizards spun as an "investment" in Apple. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Canyon_Company https://www.zdnet.com/article/stop-the-lies-the-day-that-microsoft-saved-apple/ No no no. That was the _old_ MS. I do not see Microsoft ever releasing Windows NT source code: NT is still in use. Win11 is NT. Ditto MS Office. If ReactOS ever reaches good compatibility with even Windows 2000 or XP, I think MS will stomp it. But it could release all versions of DOS (excluding non-MS code) and all of Windows 2, 3.x and 9x without helping anyone with cloning NT. WINE has already cloned more of the Win32 API than Win9x managed to run. It's over. Then I'd believe it a little tiny bit that MS means it when it says it loves FOSS. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven : (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
