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LaminatorX
on Wednesday March 26 2014, @03:04AM
from the 640k-ought-to-be-enough-for-anybody dept.
from the 640k-ought-to-be-enough-for-anybody dept.
Lagg and Uncle_Al both wrote in about this surprising source release.
Lagg writes:
Today a technet article was posted by a Microsoft employee announcing that they are releasing to the Computer History Museum and the public at large the source code to v1.1 and 2.0 of MS-DOS as well as v1.1a of Word. All obvious jokes aside this could be good for projects such as DOSBox. Note also that said employee considers 300kb to be small for source code. Seems rather large to me, even now. But in any case this will be an interesting thing to dig into. To save the trouble of link chasing here are the relevant links:
Computer history article for MS-DOS (direct link to source)
Computer history article for Word (direct link to source)
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(Score: 5, Informative) by omoc on Wednesday March 26 2014, @04:50AM
I was just about to write the same thing. Source is released but not *free*, the website states in the license agreement:
"You may not distribute or publish the software or Derivative Works."
(Score: 2) by duvel on Wednesday March 26 2014, @05:39AM
Considering that the code MS is releasing is very old and that they're not even releasing it under GPL (or similar), this is a typical 'too little, too late' story. The main reason for this move by MS may well be to look better (but only to the uninformed).
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