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I might begin to believe that Microsoft is truly interested in helping the open source community when Microsoft makes XP open source in 2014 when all support is to end for that OS.

http://www.pcworld.c...windows_xp.html

kenshabby, on 17 April 2012 - 04:45 PM, said:

It'll never happen. If XP were open source, invariably someone would grab it, updated it, and possibly keep Microsoft from selling you Windows 8 or 9. Microsoft doesn't want to have to compete with itself. Personally, I think this whole "open" thing Microsoft is doing is all for show. I'll believe they're serious about it when they open source something that really matters. PlayReady would be a great place to start. Barring that, they could just drop all their demands for licensing from manufacturers of Android devices. I just don't see any of that happening though. Microsoft will be "open" when it suits them, and "closed" when it doesn't. In short, Microsoft will be Microsoft. This changes nothing in my book.

No way M$ open sources XP

They would be giving away their kernel code which ALL windows based operating systems are based on. Think about that Windows 98, 2000, XP, VISTA, 7, 8 are all built on NT technology.

Open source XP and I bet the open source community would be able to make a better Windows then MicroSuck can. Thus making their POS operating systems useless.

I am a bit cynical about MS's motive: In order to fight open source better, MS figures it needs to get much deeper inside the open source community to know all the ins and outs and then uses that knowledge against the open source community on the legal front. Imho

RickDobbelmannqbtt, on 17 April 2012 - 09:53 PM, said:

You do know that Windows 98 is NOT NT based, right?