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		whoopdedo on Dec 4, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Announcing Open Source of WPF, Windows Forms, and ... There might be better examples as that could be rewritten to use an open-source library such as InfoZip. Or simply stub-out the licensed functions and let the community fill it in. (And with something better, such as 7-zip so we get ZIP, RAR, 7z, tar, etc. folders.) But I don't doubt there is other code that is not so easily replaced.

derefr on Dec 4, 2018 | [–]

I’m not sure such libraries could be rewritten (in a white-box, non-IP-infringing manner) while maintaining the bug-for-bug ABI compatibility that Microsoft (mostly) guarantees their customers.

anticensor on Dec 4, 2018 | [–]

Raymond has already covered this in an ONT post: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180515-00/?p=...

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