> My biggest regret is that we didn’t OSS it from the start, where the meritocracy of the Internet could judge its pieces appropriately.
This would have been interesting, but it's not too late. Correct me if I'm wrong, but there isn't anything stopping Microsoft from releasing this research to the public today. It seems like something the "new" Microsoft of 2020 would be likely to do.
There was a copy of the code for Singularity, the predecessor to Midori, on CodePlex. Not sure if it ever got moved to Github.
It has to be said, though. It's more like "source available", not open source. I can't remember what the license is specifically, but it's not a proper open source license.
You could see it, build it, and play with it, but you couldn't do anything else with it. No sharing changes, no derivatives, etc.
Singularity would be a neat place to start working on a managed code OS, though.
I would prefer that they properly open source Midori.
This would have been interesting, but it's not too late. Correct me if I'm wrong, but there isn't anything stopping Microsoft from releasing this research to the public today. It seems like something the "new" Microsoft of 2020 would be likely to do.