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Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 (www.theregister.com)
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[โ€“] orclev@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

They would only be obliged to open source any extra code they added to the kernel. If whatever they add lives in user space then it can be closed source (that's one of the key differences between GPL 2 and 3 and why Linus refuses to use GPL 3). That said the problem with Windows at this point isn't really the kernel, it's all the user space crap they built on top of it.

[โ€“] baronvonj@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Even then, they can just have an open source shim and a binary blob for the driver, a la Nvidia.