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Originally Posted by jay019
Yeah, cause being open source anyone can go and take a peek.
Although looking at the OpenVMS source would suffice, seeing as NT is a clone of that.
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I guess you misunderstand the term open source. Open source means you are free to look, (sometimes change) and use for your own purpose code published under an open source license. Microsoft is not open source so you cant rip off the code and sell your own version of windows. You can however view the source. This is usually done to debug your application against the various windows API's and virtual machines.
The fact that VMS has the word open in it does not imply that it is open source. Of course this will mean little to you as you seem to like spamming this thread with half baked untrue suppositions. Compaq would of course sue anyone who used VMS source in an open source manner.
Windows is no more a clone of VMS than it is a clone of the original MAC Os. It contains some ideas not 'cloned lines of code'. Anyway i compliment you on your trolling style, yesterday windows was built on DOS, today it is a clone of VMS. Why dont you actually go and do some reading on the subject before enlightening us with your next wild suggestion.
Paul