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   From: joelcrump@gmail.com   
      
   Joel  wrote:   
      
   >If I were M$, I wouldn't want it [Windows NT source code] to be public   
   domain, even   
   >at 20+ years old.  It's still the foundation of Win11Copilot, today.   
      
      
   Obviously, XP and other ancient OSes don't share any code with Win11 -   
   but the foundation of Vista was XP 64-bit/Server2003.  Not in code so   
   much, to be sure, but in what was being re-implemented.  So, the code   
   for any previous version going back to NT 3.1, would be something that   
   Microsoft would be protective of.  There's a lot to this that gets   
   into intellectual property rights, open-source philosophy simply   
   doesn't apply to something still in production, there will come a time   
   when Winblows as we know it is old news, but that is still some   
   distance away.   
      
   --   
   Joel W. Crump   
      
   Amendment XIV   
   Section 1.   
      
   [...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall   
   abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the   
   United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of   
   life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;   
   nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal   
   protection of the laws.   
      
   Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent.  States are   
   liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)