I see, but I still don't get why any of that had to be stripped, aren't they using public APIs? Nothing there has to be in any particularly way secret.

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kimixa 4 days ago | parent [-]

From what I remember a lot of the code provided by Microsoft was not publicly available or permissively licensed.

Though I think a lot of it might be considered "Legacy" - it still existed.

	▲	shmerl 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Huh, interesting. Very MS style of problem. Why can't they develop public OS interfaces for that? I.e. you don't need the full code for that, just interface libraries. Not having public interfaces in this day and age is simply dumb.