StudlyCaps wrote:
Obviously it would be illegal to do anything with it
Why? WinXP is end of line for years, Microsoft has made it pretty clear they have given up on XP. They won't support it, nor sell it etc. They simply couldn't care less about XP, so I think they've lost the right to care about the source too. (And I'm also pretty sure they have enough money to pay lawyers to say otherwise, but that just doesn't make it morally right.)
StudlyCaps wrote:
Would you be curious to see it?
Well, I'm curious about all code in general, so yes, but I'm not particularly interested in this one.
StudlyCaps wrote:
Code for device drivers, API implementations, lots of components rely on bug-compatible implementations of MS' system.
I believe this is going to be an invaluable source for wine and ReactOS. I'm not saying they should steal this code, but they should definitely study it to fill up the gaps because of missing Microsoft documentation.
Cheers,
bzt