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RE: Re: RE: Strange windows idea

wyliecoyoteuk — Sun Jan 07, 2007 9:19 pm

Author: wyliecoyoteuk

Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 9:19 pm

Expecting MS to give anything away is like waiting for Godot.
Windows 3.1 is still copyright, and NOT FREE, despite having been out of use by the majority of the planet for 10 years.

RE: Re: RE: Strange windows idea

kilikopele — Sun Jan 07, 2007 8:47 pm

Author: kilikopele

Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 8:47 pm

Since the white coats haven't reached me on the other forum, yet, I just have to ask "Isn't there already an open source "Windows" project seeking to reverse-engineer Windows much in the way Linux reversed Unix?"

<insert sound of typing into Google>

Ah, yes. ReactOS http://www.reactos.org/en/index.html I'm sure you could design your "Sea Lion" theme to use with it. My Computer would become The Aquarium. The Desktop could feature a Tamagotchi-eque Sea Lion that you have to frequently click on to care for by feeding it "candy".

Then you could go out to the OSSWin Sourceforge project and replace the M$ bloated apps with their open source equivalents.

Re: RE: Strange windows idea

Rhakios — Sat Jan 06, 2007 3:10 pm

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 3:10 pm

MartyBartfast wrote:

I got the impression Candy was thinking M$ would release this, so although it wouldn't be "Open" anything, they would be able to give it away free.

Wow, there's a Gloucestershire Old Spot just flown past the window

I believe your second paragraph anyway

Re: RE: Strange windows idea

MartyBartfast — Sat Jan 06, 2007 2:31 pm

Author: MartyBartfast

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 2:31 pm

Rhakios wrote:

It shouldn't (couldn't?) be called "Open" anything as it will be based on proprietary Microsoft code. So even if you did want this up to date version of 98-lite (some of you may recall it), you would still need to fork over the readies to Microsoft for the licenses.

RE: Strange windows idea

Rhakios — Sat Jan 06, 2007 2:22 pm

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 2:22 pm

It shouldn't (couldn't?) be called "Open" anything as it will be based on proprietary Microsoft code. So even if you did want this up to date version of 98-lite (some of you may recall it), you would still need to fork over the readies to Microsoft for the licenses.

RE: Strange windows idea

towy71 — Sat Jan 06, 2007 2:10 pm

Author: towy71

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 2:10 pm

Keep taking the medicine, the men in white coats are busy on another forum but they will get to you

Strange windows idea

candy — Sat Jan 06, 2007 12:44 pm

Author: candy

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 12:44 pm

Hi

I had this strange idea come to me over Christmas and no it wasn't the drink.

It was this: A free release of XP Pro but with FF2 and Thunderbird which also contained OOo and Sunbird.

It would be called Open Sea lion.

It would have the the media player removed as well as the Fax/Jpeg viewer and be managed by a consortium with input by MS for service packs.

The ultimate clean up MS image project when formal support for XP is turned off.

Any thoughts?