The Place to Start for Operating System Developers
https://f.osdev.org/
I hadn't time to look at it closely, but it looks huge... ~800k lines of code 
Interesting. I would think that posting any code would be a breach of contract, but apparently not.You may distribute snippets of this software in research papers, books or other teaching materials, or publish snippets of the software on websites or on-line community forums that are intended for teaching and research. The total amount of source code in each of your snippets should not exceed 50 lines.
Only ~800k for the core? I was under the impression that it was a few million total. Does the UI really take up over a million lines?~800k lines of code
be carefull not to use the knowledge in your os, because that would be illegal
?You may use any information in intangible form that you remember after accessing the software.
Admiral Ackbar says...os64dev wrote:be carefull not to use the knowledge in your os, because that would be illegal
Okay, that would make more sense then. I though 'core' constituted the HAL, NTFS, Network stack, etc.kataklinger wrote:Only ~800k for the core? I was under the impression that it was a few million total. Does the UI really take up over a million lines?
It just for kernel. WRK doesn't include source for:
- HAL
- NTFS drivers
- GUI
- millions of other standard Windows services
- network stack
- kernel debugger
- IA64 support (x64 support is included)
- a lot more
MS says that soruce code is available for some of these things in DDK.
Do you really think that this is a conspiracy made by Bill Gates, Pol Allen and Steve Ballmer? Do you really think that MS is going to waste time and money by suing some hobby os developer (or all of us)? What's the point? I can see why and how they could use it against companies involved in Linux development (which I seriously doubt), but suing author of some unknown, almost non-existing, half-cooked, so-called operating system which makes no profit...that is equal to insanity.Brynet-Inc wrote:I agree with Kevin, This is most definitely a trap... They would likely try using this against you if you made/worked on a competing product.
AYBABTUkataklinger wrote:Do you really think that this is a conspiracy made by Bill Gates, Pol Allen and Steve Ballmer? Do you really think that MS is going to waste time and money by suing some hobby os developer (or all of us)? What's the point? I can see why and how they could use it against companies involved in Linux development (which I seriously doubt), but suing author of some unknown, almost non-existing, half-cooked, so-called operating system which makes no profit...that is equal to insanity.Brynet-Inc wrote:I agree with Kevin, This is most definitely a trap... They would likely try using this against you if you made/worked on a competing product.
Argh! First, I'm Candy, now I'm Kevin! I specifically chose my nick 8 years ago to be memorable in the context of OS dev! This must be some kind of conspiracy!Brynet-Inc wrote:I agree with Kevin
No, but later on, if it's convenient, Ballmer won't hesitate to use this as an excuse to claim that MS intellectual property has somehow leaked into competing products. This tactic is called "poisoning the well".kataklinger wrote:Do you really think that this is a conspiracy made by Bill Gates, Pol Allen and Steve Ballmer?
Apologies, I didn't mean to call you Kevin, won't happen again Joe...Colonel Kernel wrote:Argh! First, I'm Candy, now I'm Kevin! I specifically chose my nick 8 years ago to be memorable in the context of OS dev! This must be some kind of conspiracy!Brynet-Inc wrote:I agree with Kevin
They won't sue a hobbyist OS project. They'll wait until it's ready to become mainstream, then sue you.Colonel Kernel wrote:This tactic is called "poisoning the well".kataklinger wrote:Do you really think that this is a conspiracy made by Bill Gates, Pol Allen and Steve Ballmer?