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posted by chromas on Friday March 08 2019, @10:22PM   Printer-friendly
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calc.exe is now open source; there's surprising depth in its ancient code

Microsoft's embrace and adoption of open source software has continued with the surprising decision to publish the code for Windows Calculator and release it on GitHub under the permissive MIT license.

The repository shows Calculator's surprisingly long history. Although it is in some regards one of the most modern Windows applications—it's an early adopter of Fluent Design and has been used to showcase a number of design elements—core parts of the codebase date all the way back to 1995.


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 09 2019, @07:51AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 09 2019, @07:51AM (#811963)

    It's cute and good to have "UI guidelines" but it's silly to pretend there is only one desktop environment. Pick the best applications, nevermind the way they look...

    GUN/Linux is not a monolithic entity or a walled garden. With freedom comes diversity.

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  • (Score: 2) by urza9814 on Monday March 11 2019, @01:09PM

    by urza9814 (3954) on Monday March 11 2019, @01:09PM (#812655) Journal

    GUN/Linux is not a monolithic entity or a walled garden. With freedom comes diversity.

    ...and diversity is strength. Regardless of if the infection is a virus, a zero-day, or just stupid developers, it infects a much smaller portion of the population.

    ...until everyone jumped on that systemd garbage anyway...