7 Mar
2001
7 Mar
'01
11:55 p.m.
At 08:26 PM 3/7/01 -0500, you wrote:
>If MS would just give us the source code, we could
fix it for them.
I've often thought about what the rag-tag open source
community would do if they had the Windows source - the
whole kit and caboodle. I'd guess that the entire Microsoft
source base (counting apps, developer tools, in-house
tools, and all the DDK (device driver) tools, etc.) are
close to two orders of magnitude more code and data than
the average four-CD Linux distro. Frankly, I don't think
they could handle it. Does the open source community
have the same number of full-time man-hours available
to a new task of this size? What about writers and
managers, not just counting programers?
- John