• voxel
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    wasn’t it leaked already

    • Luna
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      2724 days ago

      Probably yeah, but now they’ve officially released it under the MIT license so stuff like Wine could now potentially borrow some code to improve compatibility with Windows

      • capital
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        24 days ago

        That thought occurred to me but is code this old even still relevant at all?

        I ask this as someone who writes simple scripts and would never call themselves a coder.

        • Luna
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          524 days ago

          For the most part probably not, but Microsoft cares a lot about backwards compatibility so I imagine some of this code still lives on in Windows

          Though you should take this with a grain of salt, since I’m saying this as someone who 1. never looked at Wine source code 2. used the Windows API only once, for a very small program 3. is still learning programming, so I wouldn’t call myself a coder (yet) either

          • voxel
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            yeah there are even still some remaining windows 3.0 dialogues used in the latest win11