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> Menuet64 is closed source because M32 was forked and new copyrights just slapped at the beginning of practically all 32bit source files (multitasking, drivers, GUI, networking..) without any permission. You can take a guess about the country in question.

https://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?t=22194

>>frankj+(OP)
> You can take a guess about the country in question.

For the curious, it appears to have been done by people in Russia (state-sponsored or not is unclear)

>>frankj+(OP)
How does that make sense? That has always been and will always be possible with any open source project. Should every other project go closed source too just because Russia can fork it and say "I made this"?

>>mike_h+R4
Yeah, that excuse makes perfect sense if you don't think about it.

>>frankj+(OP)
That seems like an awfully petty reason. (and does the forum censor the word "Russia" or something?)

>>weikju+32
It would be ridiculous for a state to sponsor a toy OS. I think it's absurd.

>>mike_h+R4
It makes sense that the fact you are making a big deal of it while you didn’t get to say anything about apple macos since it was never open source in the first place.

>>xvilka+5r
ReactOS?

>>up2iso+VC
MacOS and MenuetOS aren't equivalent, not even up to isomorphism.

Menuet is far from being a practical OS. It's a very interesting proof of concept/research project, but its usefulness evaporates almost completely without the source.

>>mike_h+R4
Closing down the source was likely an emotional, rather than a rational reaction. The author simply got pissed and didn't want this to happen again.

>>Almond+pJ
I wouldn't classify ReactOS as "toy", and I believe Russia stopped sponsoring it many years ago.

>>xvilka+5r
No proof whether it's state-sponsored or not, and this is called out in the thread. I thought I had carefully chosen my word when I said "people in Russia", where not every people in that country is working for the state ;)