What would happen if the
windows OS source code was
released to the
public?
Nothing.
People would
fix a few
bugs if they could
nail them
down, but it must be
millions upon
millions of lines long. How much good would that do
anyone in the next few
years? Trying to
document and
tame that much source would simply be
evil.
As far as the
licencing is
concerned, I think it's
everything included. I
hear MIT has it, and they work on
parts of it to clean things up. The original
Kerberos came out of some such
agreement, I read somewhere. The
NDA underneath it I hear is also quite
killer.