Thirty years ago, we thought this only would happen when hell freezes over.
15 years later I spoke to Sam Ramj, then head of MS OSS labs, he told me it would take some time. I thought they were faster in Redmond. :-).
That was 2007. 16 years ago.
Here's the news:
Microsoft open sources MS-DOS. Repeat: The source code of MS-DOS is now #opensource
#msdos 1 and 2, that is. Well, it's a start.
https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS
Markus Feilner :verified: /
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