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xpeyesterday at 9:19 PM1 replyview on HN

If Bill is reading this: Another way to commit to quality would be (a) fund a $200M+ open source foundation to migrate/port/rewrite all of Windows (drivers, utilities, applications) to Linux; (b) give the foundation full IP rights to do so; (c) put all Microsoft Windows employees on the effort too.


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the_pwner224yesterday at 9:38 PM

Bill definitely wouldn't approve of the current Windows quality. This email by him (2003) is very interesting. It looks like he was powerless to stop the degradation.

https://web.archive.org/web/20080626154537/http://blog.seatt...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=227045

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