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From: Ian Stirling <root@mauve.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Microsoft begining to open source Windows 2000?
To: pollard@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 18:34:37 +0000 (GMT)
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In-Reply-To: <200103081524.JAA89231@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil> from "Jesse Pollard" at Mar 08, 2001 09:24:08 AM
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<snip "microsoft may be going open source">
> Not a chance. First your company must have at least 1500 licences.... and
> you can't modify any code... which implies that you can't rebuild either...

You can modify your compiler, so that it accepts patches (with no context)
and completely rewrite anything that needs modified.
The modified source would never be stored anywhere.

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