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BigGoofyGuy:
http://liliputing.com/2014/03/ms-dos-word-windows-source-code-released.html
To me, it is like Ford releasing the blue prints to the Model T. There is also an open source DOS that is more advanced - IIRC - called FreeDOS.
http://www.freedos.org. 

Open Office is a better version of Word, IMO.
http://www.openoffice.org/

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Martin Iturbide:
Hi

It is an interesting novelty, but the source code released does not allows any kind of derivative work. It is just for display

http://www.computerhistory.org/_static/atchm/microsoft-word-for-windows-1-1a-source-code/agreement/

Maybe it is useless source code, but it is more useless since it does not allows derivative works.

Regards

dbanet:
Anyway that's so cool!

Martin Iturbide:
Sure, it is nice to have the source code, but the idea of having source code available to the public, to me, (...and sorry to get philosophical) is that it can "sum up" to bigger thing and that can derivate into other things.  The idea is not to have the source code for display, it is to allow it to grow and help the people that uses it.

Sure, it is MS Word 1.1, it is useless today compared to Openoffice, it is not the better example :)

BigGoofyGuy:
I read that some hoped that Win XP would be open sourced. Even if Microsoft did open source it, it would probably be like the MS-DOS being opened sourced.  ::)

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