[plug] WinCE released under shared source

Chris Caston caston at arach.net.au
Fri Apr 11 13:36:49 WST 2003


On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 11:24, John Knight wrote:
> I'm getting a vision, I see a project called... 'WINE'.... I see some happy 
> nerds......

With blind-folds on or keeping very far away from the code. Lest MS
claim that WINE contains any code lifted from Windows CE.

On the other foot WINE is falls over enough already WITHOUT WinCE code.
 
> Make lunch, not war.
> 
> 
> >As above. I think this is the link:
> >
> >http://www.microsoft.com/windows/embedded/ce.net/downloads/
> >
> >
> >First person to compile this on Linux gets $5 and my sister (;
> >
> >
> >[Updated 10:10 pm PDT] -- Microsoft Corp. "dropped the other shoe"
> >today, as it were, announcing the first source code sharing program for
> >its Windows CE embedded operating system (OS) that allows developers and
> >manufacturers to actually redistribute modified OS code in real
> >products. Previously, the commercial use of Windows CE source code was
> >essentially restricted to technical support purposes only, in that
> >developers could use the code to solve problems and understand how to
> >work within the capabilities of the OS, but were not permitted to employ
> >modified Windows CE code to fix bugs, add functions, or tune the OS to
> >tight resource constraints.
> >
> >http://www.windowsfordevices.com/news/NS6015823526.html
> >
> >
> >
> 
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