Windows Source Availability
Comments focus on the accessibility of Microsoft Windows source code through leaks, Shared Source programs, government and enterprise access, and whether this equates to it being open source.
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One can find leaked Windows source code on the Internet. Is it open source?
You can see the source code of Windows whenever you like. Pay for a Shared Source Initiative license and Microsoft will show you. Or just look at any of the old leaked versions. In neither case is there anything untoward going on in the codebase. Mostly what you’ll find is just integrated proprietary upstream-vendor source code that Microsoft licensed themselves for use in Windows, but does not have an unlimited right to redistribute in source-code form.
Do you ask to see Microsoft Windows source code. Well, then that.
Can access to Windows source code help?
The Windows source code was leaked onto the web many years ago wasn't it? Guess that makes it freeware too.
There probably is a huge amount of code inside Windows that Microsoft has a license to use, but no right to open.
Many governments already have access to microsoft source code. Big corporate clients too.
Why doesn't Windows (Microsoft) build open source code themselves and sign the source seen, easier to inspect for bad things version?
windows is source-available if you have deep enough pockets: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/enterprise-sour...
If only Microsoft owned a place to post source code...