Re: Isolationism is history.
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 11:45:49AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote:
> I used to have read-only access to that codebase. The code is actually
> pretty clean and maintainable (what I read). Microsoft does tend to use
> gotos for error exits.
Good-oh. The Linux kernel does that too. :) "GOTO considered harmful"
has a valid point, but it can be used correctly to make certain kinds of
code a lot more readable and in fact make it easier to demonstrate
correctness.
> You can probably read the Windows code by looking at the Windows CE.NET
> source which is freely available. It's a fork. You can get a flavor of
> it. If you try real hard, you can probably via a University take a look
> at the source -- Microsoft is handing out read-access grudgingly. Work
> within the system and you can accomplish that goal.
But be very careful about doing that; you may well end up "tainted" if
you sign source licence agreements, and writing free software thereafter
could be difficult.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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