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Olafur Gunnlaugsson:
XP will not be open sourced any time soon, XP embedded is supported to 2015 or even 2016 and the POS version of XP is technically still available even if it is considered legacy and is supported until 2019. MS is not going to open source something that will lead to competition against their own products

dbanet:

--- Quote from: Tom Lee Mullins on March 26, 2014, 05:57:18 pm ---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.  ::)

--- End quote ---

If M$ releases it under GNU GPL, it will push linux very very back away to the days when it was needed by noone.

That would be an epic thing, an event that will surely get into the annals of computer history.

BigGoofyGuy:

--- Quote from: Boris on March 28, 2014, 08:00:22 pm ---
--- Quote from: Tom Lee Mullins on March 26, 2014, 05:57:18 pm ---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.  ::)

--- End quote ---

If M$ releases it under GNU GPL, it will push linux very very back away to the days when it was needed by noone.

That would be an epic thing, an event that will surely get into the annals of computer history.

--- End quote ---

I read that Microsoft is making a lot of money from Linux through license fees; fees paid by Dell and other companies. If it pushed it back to the days when Linux was not being used, they would lose a lot of money, IMO.

http://www.androidauthority.com/microsoft-2-bill-android-315034/
from Android

http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-profits-from-linux-patent-fud-7000001598/
from Linux.

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