Re: Isolationism is history.

From: Day Brown (daybrown_at_hypertech.net)
Date: 01/31/04

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    Colin Watson wrote:
     
    > > You can probably read the Windows code by looking at the Windows CE.NET
    > > source which is freely available. It's a fork. You can get a flavor of
    > > it. If you try real hard, you can probably via a University take a look
    > > at the source -- Microsoft is handing out read-access grudgingly. Work
    > > within the system and you can accomplish that goal.
    >
    > But be very careful about doing that; you may well end up "tainted" if
    > you sign source licence agreements, and writing free software thereafter
    > could be difficult.
    There's also the problem, that if you do craft anything truely useful,
    Microsoft lawyers will take it away from you. Has a programmer ever won
    a case against Microsoft? I've read more cases of programmers screwed
    within the system they tried to work within. But I dunno, never tried
    it. 

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