Yeah, I shouldn't have been so flippant. But seriously, M$ spent 15 years and 100 or so engineers 'breaking with the past' to create (whatever its virtues) a closed source system that at the end of the day they said 'meh' to and mothballed. So an OSS attempt probably should probably temper its expectations.
Presumably MS has it in cold storage somewhere... Maybe it'll get open-sourced some day, but I'm not holding my breath.
Yeah, I shouldn't have been so flippant. But seriously, M$ spent 15 years and 100 or so engineers 'breaking with the past' to create (whatever its virtues) a closed source system that at the end of the day they said 'meh' to and mothballed. So an OSS attempt probably should probably temper its expectations.