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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller
      last edited by scottalanmiller

      http://www.forbes.com/sites/tonybradley/2014/04/24/the-case-for-making-windows-xp-open-source-and-why-its-a-bad-idea/

      The usual silly speculation is starting. Microsoft will never entertain this. It would be self defeating for them. Just silly to talk about.

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      • NicN
        Nic
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        They'd never do that because the code base would be embarrassing 🙂

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller
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          It really would be. And it would start a whole market in revamped XP that would longer for forever.

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          • T
            technobabble
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            Didn't someone try that with W98?

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller @technobabble
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              @technobabble said:

              Didn't someone try that with W98?

              The only "someone" that can try that is Microsoft and it is really a do it do not situation. It's really hard to try to be open and fail. The moment you try, it is done.

              DOS has never been opened. So no Windows built on it is by extension.

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              • T
                technobabble
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                Yeah, not open source, but there was the Keep W98 alive campaign as well as the crazy customer I had 8 years ago who was buying my old parts for his "special W98" rig. He said something about he belonged to a "win98" club that allowed him to keep using his PC. He was weird.

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller @technobabble
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                  @technobabble said:

                  Yeah, not open source, but there was the Keep W98 alive campaign as well as the crazy customer I had 8 years ago who was buying my old parts for his "special W98" rig. He said something about he belonged to a "win98" club that allowed him to keep using his PC. He was weird.

                  No patches, no updates. Anyone can "just keep running" something outdated if they don't care about functionality, security and support.

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                    technobabble
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                    yeah, he told me that the had people writing drivers and such. I was only half listening to his ramblings waiting to get paid for the parts I was going to throw away!

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller @technobabble
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                      @technobabble said:

                      yeah, he told me that the had people writing drivers and such. I was only half listening to his ramblings waiting to get paid for the parts I was going to throw away!

                      Drivers you can get, it's patches and fixes that you cannot.

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                      • JoyJ
                        Joy @scottalanmiller
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                        @scottalanmiller said:

                        @technobabble said:

                        yeah, he told me that the had people writing drivers and such. I was only half listening to his ramblings waiting to get paid for the parts I was going to throw away!

                        Drivers you can get, it's patches and fixes that you cannot.

                        Hahahah We are still using Windows XP, Virtual Mode..

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller @Joy
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                          @Joyfano said:

                          @scottalanmiller said:

                          @technobabble said:

                          yeah, he told me that the had people writing drivers and such. I was only half listening to his ramblings waiting to get paid for the parts I was going to throw away!

                          Drivers you can get, it's patches and fixes that you cannot.

                          Hahahah We are still using Windows XP, Virtual Mode..

                          Do you have any plans to migrate off of it.

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                          • JoyJ
                            Joy @scottalanmiller
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                            @scottalanmiller said:

                            @Joyfano said:

                            @scottalanmiller said:

                            @technobabble said:

                            yeah, he told me that the had people writing drivers and such. I was only half listening to his ramblings waiting to get paid for the parts I was going to throw away!

                            Drivers you can get, it's patches and fixes that you cannot.

                            Hahahah We are still using Windows XP, Virtual Mode..

                            Do you have any plans to migrate off of it.

                            Yes.. its still connected with my problem last time ( RSA token not working in some windows 7)

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