Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 15:42:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 15:42:18 -0500 Received: from tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil ([204.222.179.33]:64875 "EHLO tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 15:42:12 -0500 Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 14:41:42 -0600 (CST) From: Jesse Pollard Message-Id: <200103082041.OAA14001@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil> To: root@mauve.demon.co.uk, pollard@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil Subject: Re: Microsoft begining to open source Windows 2000? In-Reply-To: <200103081834.SAA22871@mauve.demon.co.uk> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-Mailer: [XMailTool v3.1.2b] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --------- Received message begins Here --------- > > > > 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. So you have the source to the MS compiler???? And they gave you all of the object modules (or at least the source) AND the makefiles (or equivalent)??? I believe their "can't modify" includes the OS you were supplied under a different license. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jesse I Pollard, II Email: pollard@navo.hpc.mil Any opinions expressed are solely my own. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/