[meddlepal]

I don't know why anyone would think it is impossible, but it would take significant money and time to do it and it is unclear what benefit there would be except some small good will gained from developers that care about the FSF mission.

[wyldfire]

I think the benefit is unclear but it's almost certainly not limited to good will.

There's lots of developers who are working on products targeting Windows today (for momentum, their customer's requirements, etc). Those devs encounter Windows bugs and generally workaround them. But if instead they could patch them and/or provide patches upstream, it would be a huge benefit to them and likely some benefit to Microsoft as well.

[Crinus]

I know one of the first things i'd do if i had the code would be to improve the practically abandoned MDIClient.

The second would be to bring classic theme back :-P

[bubblethink]

>it is unclear what benefit there would be

You can run windows software elsewhere. What more do you need ?

[arthurcolle]

The source code.

[nvrspyx]

Which you would have if it was open source. I don't understand your point.

[cameronbrown]

If Windows was open sourced it'd easily reach mainstream media awareness.