Microsoft: An Open Source Windows Is ‘Definitely Possible’

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what's the point anyway? you can just use wine or run windows in a vm if you really need it these days. they probably won't open source directx, and even if they do, probably wouldn't improve the vulkan + driver situation on linux enough

windows is losing either way, and microsoft is aware

>Fuchsia OS
>Windows (maybe) going FOSS

Linux is literally kill

nigger are you complaining about open sourcing windows?

Freetards are actually just loonix fanboys

they won't

Because Windows is a better OS than GNU/Linux.

it's mostly pointless at this point

nope. you're just too stupid to learn how to use it. the only thing windows has over linux is gpu drivers and legacy code, but like i said earlier, legacy code is no longer an issue, for the most part

How will they make any money when people remove the spyware and forced updates?

well sure, and hydrogen powered cars becoming the norm by 2010 was "definitely possible" back in the day.

Microshill isn't going to do anything Open Source friendly. ever.

objectively false
it simply has better driver and application support

oWo

Are they going open source because nobody at their company can read decade's old spaghetti code anymore?

Just wait. "Open Source Windows" will mean that they will open source some meaningless components in a restrictive license.
Also, most importantly, the most important parts won't be open sourced but they will be a binary blob you will just have to compile in.
Wouldn't want to worry you by exposing you to telemetry.cpp, would we?

>GNU/Windows is a possibility
I love this timeline.

not free software

They make it "open source" as in "you can look at the code but don't do anything else with it"

What about the millions of windows only third party apps

No! Open sourcing is never pointless you fucking retarded tripfag piece of shit go fucking kill yourself for fuck sake god damnit fuck I hate you. FUCK!

>forcing Windows to go full open-source is a failure
What fucking universe are you from? This is a victory in every possible respect.

>M$ being so desperate for a comeback they are trying to do non-M$ stuff

what a time to be alive

That's already how it works today actually. Some big customers (eg, banks with huge enterprise support contracts and many tens of thousands of licenses) can sign an NDA and inspect the source. (or rather have security and auditing types look at it for them) They don't get to modify it or build it themselves though.

So "open source" in a way, but certainly not free software. If they ever GPL windows or any significant component thereof, I'll eat my hat.

>possibility
GNU/NT is already a thing

Open source is communist cuckoldry. The free market needs proprietary software to compete.

are you serious?

It's "possible" but it's not going to happen.

World peace is "possible" but that's also not going to happen.

They are not about to let you and your family look at the Windows source code. Sorry, this is just bad bait.

>yfw telemetry is a blob

>the future of software is "open source"
>open source
stallman gonna be mad

This. The majority of apple's OS is open source

this kills ReactOS

For us, yes. Not for Linux though. It will become redundant

why would you compete when you can cooperate?

I don't have to pay for ReactOS

b-but muh wine!

Free market you whiny commie, I would use windows with telemetry that works rather than linux that doesn't work.

>stallman gonna be mad

Who?

I mean they could still continue developing it, they'd just have to merge a bunch of crap and come up with something that makes them different enough from mainline.

Microsoft themselves are phasing out all those third party apps.

The obvious question is: Why would they do this? I don't use Windows myself but my understanding is that almost everyone who does so has a few key programs or games that they rely on which don't work or don't work well on GNU/Linux.

I have no idea what they are thinking with Windows 10S but that's where they are heading: Third party apps only for high-paying corporate clients who will probably have to apply and a crippled Windows App Store only version for the average "consumer". I really don't understand how they expect that to fly but this is what they are doing.

>FOSS windows
Kek. I'll believe it when I see it

your (secret) uncle

they will just have do what they usually do, have 1 guy who doesnt work for them officially read some code, explain how it works and then have their devs try and replicate it.

free software already competes
just look at people sperging about torrent clients or music players or browsers or window managers or even distros
even vim/emacs (though I think vim won that one)

>Possible
just not very likely.

>windows becomes open sauce
>freetards switch to it
>5 years later MS decides to close source again
>freetards have to use some shitty version without developers or switch to proprietary
:^)

They forgot to add the part: "but only if someone leaks the code"

The tech companies are coercive monopolies that violate the fundamental principles of free market capitalism. The problem is the federal government's anti trust laws are completely defanged. In a truly free and open marketplace windows would never be able to compete with Linux or any unixlike operating system.

open sores magically fixes everything amirite?

Bacon sriracha nutella nharwalXDD

toodles!

Don't like windows don't use it.

OSS, not FOSS. The way of the future is the death of free software and corporate co-option of open source.

I don't.

But didn't you listen to this guy? FOSS is bad communism! How is that not a convincing argument?

They probably believe at this point that they can do whatever they want and people will buy it anyways. I hope they're wrong.

I don't think that's the way they heading They made 10S to appease computer illiterates whom just want a stable OS as simple as possible. They will never implement such restrictions for the main line.

stallman doesn't deserve to be the sticky post on this board, ESR does, but these stupid socialist fucks wouldnt know better

>this kills ReactOS
ReactOS is already dead. They are basically still trying to create a Windows XP clone and when you read about their bullshit progress it's things like "We now have parallel port printing working!".

Seriously, that OS is dead in the water.

Let's just say some miracle happens and they magically get millions and millions in funding from some government or whatever and they are able to hire hundreds of developers who code hard for 6 months and we get something that's actually usable and working. Let's just pretend that this is possible and happens.

Would you go right ahead and use a Windows XP clone today? That project was relevant when they started out but now it's just irrelevant.

this

damn Sup Forums is fucking retarded, sage this shit

Wait... if windows become open source, does it mean someone can make the Linux kernel run with the Windows graphic manager ? so that finally Linux won't look like shit ?

I mean XFCE is kind of nice for being basic, but KDE and Gnome both suck ass compared to Windows or iOS

Sup Forums is becoming a windows board, people with real technology experience are replacing lincuckoldry.

these stupid gnu fuckers want their OS protected by law to protect them against other laws like DRM. they are incapable of understanding their hypocrisy

what is your iq level? how long were you in special ed for?

It's obviously possible. That doesn't really mean anything.

Nothing wrong with DRM commie shithead.

poo in the loo, rajeesh

Neither of the distros are more advanced than Windows XP though.

reading comprehension. where did I say drm was bad? I said gnu idiots want laws to protect them from drm.

People don't know anything else.
You can't dislike something if you have nothing else to compare it to.
The only ones who know about Linux are tech oriented people and most of them are gamer kids or people who are too used to Windows to try and learn anything else.

>mfw replacing everything stupid Microsoft does with open source components while keeping compatibility with Windows programs

There is already UKUI to people who like the windows 7 look.

If several systems can do the same things but one requires you to learn more stuff in order to do them, then that's the inferior one. Don't delude yourself.

>laws like DRM
EULAs aren't laws, they're contracts. And most EULA contracts get thrown out in court.

>EULAs aren't laws, they're contracts. And most EULA contracts get thrown out in court.
yes, I know. typing fast, typo

>No one even asks for a source

I do not even know where to start to learn how to do most of the stuff I know on windows

Your black and white worldview is hilarious

>Instant macaroni and professional cooking both feed you but macaroni is easier so it's better
>Not even considering the concept of "pros and cons"

Fuck off, Raymond. You're the Eduard Bernstein of the free software movement.

>what is the big ass WIRED logo
$100 says your IQ is single-digit

Joke's on you motherfucker, my IQ is 23.

wired.com/2015/04/microsoft-open-source-windows-definitely-possible/
literally 1st result by typing headline into Google btw

free software movement is a cult, and stallman himself contradicts himself within minutes when he speaks.

>implying this would make desktop linux pointless
One of the main advantage of distros is that they aren't merely a DOS WM that consists of spaghetti code and has been modernized with duct tape and bubble gum. Shitty code will still be continue to be shitty if you open source it. This is also very likely.
This would greatly improve WINE though.

Throw freetards out of helicopters to protect proprietary software.

Nice strawman faggot. No wonder a fat imbecile who compares OSes to food would be triggered by someone saying the truth about GNU/Linux. The only advantage free (as in freedom) stuff has is that it doesn't cost money; that's it. For every single other possible case, Windows will always be better. Even if you wanted a server of some kind, Windows servers makes it easy for normal people and it works great; it wouldn't be an overstatement to say that Windows server is superior to using free OSes, but in real life companies have to save that $.

>There's nothing wrong with corporations dictating what calculations I can perform on a machine that I own.

This is the power of capitalism.

I won't APOLOGIZE until they make Open Source Windows true

No but it's a step in the right direction. And don't @ me again if you're only going to speak in memes

>This would greatly improve WINE though.
no it would not.
Wine devs would not be allowed to look at the source since it would still be under a restrictive license

and even if they did, it would be some meaningless component that wine already does better.

It won't matter when all Windows software is distributed in encrypted Windows Store packages.

There's nothing wrong with corporations dictating what calculations you can perform on a machine that you own using the software that they own. If you don't like it be a capitalist and develop your own OS, dumb commie bitch.

nothing wrong with DRM technology, but legal enforcement of DRM technology is a state-sponsored monopoly

anyone who ostensibly believes in the free market and supports "intellectual property" i.e., monopoly law is a fucking cuck

@Use you're branes,moran
Windoozerooni is gonna be sheite regardless if its OS(open source) softwarez.
Kid.

Can you provide a source?

state-sponsored monopolies are called patents.

Microsoft just has to switch to the MIT license so they can let other people do the work for them and they can still turn a profit.

>04.03.15

>2015.
Well, there's something going on this week, that's for sure.

Linux tards can't even manage driver support.

>develop your own OS
But don't release it for free, right?

Sieze the means of computation, now shoo, you have DMCA takedowns to issue.

>The only advantage free (as in freedom) stuff has is that it doesn't cost money; that's it.
That's wrong, though. IIRC, it actually cost HTC more to sell Android devices compared to Windows Phone.

>the NWO is oppressing the linux board

Fuck off you mentally ill communist