I would choose Winamp 2 as the early versions of Winamp is exactly how I think software should be, and I also have great memories with it.
Ask HN: Which closed-source software would you most like to see the code for?
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Re: Ask HN: Which closed-source software would you most like to see the code for?
#2Off topic but it's heartening to me that after 3 hours, this thread has no replies. To me, this could be because of two reasons -
1. People believe most of their favorite softwares are already open source OR 2. They don't think highly enough of closed source softwares to want to know their internals
Re: Ask HN: Which closed-source software would you most like to see the code for?
#3Matlab of course.
Re: Ask HN: Which closed-source software would you most like to see the code for?
#4Visual studio. I've heard that its design is beautiful and I think I'd learn a lot reading it.
Re: Ask HN: Which closed-source software would you most like to see the code for?
#5Off topic but it's heartening to me that after 3 hours, this thread has no replies. To me, this could be because of two reasons - 1. People believe most of their favorite softwares are already open source OR 2. They don't think highly enough of closed source softwares to want to know their internals
I think it's more that there's plenty of interesting source code available to read through already and I personally have trouble thinking of a piece of software that I could go through in a reasonable time frame.
Re: Ask HN: Which closed-source software would you most like to see the code for?
#6Early versions of Google would be interesting to see (would be interesting to look at parts of a version of the engine that are still small enough to reason about).
Re: Ask HN: Which closed-source software would you most like to see the code for?
#7- US air traffic control software
- Software that drives the NYSE and NASDAQ exchanges
- SpaceX Dragon vehicle controller (primarily what calculates the boostback trajectory on the fly)
EDIT: Honorable mention: The Knight Capital codebase [1]
Disclaimer: Please lawd don't let this put my on a watch list.
[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-08-02/knight-sh...
Re: Ask HN: Which closed-source software would you most like to see the code for?
#8XP. Would love if somebody continued development in open way!
Re: Ask HN: Which closed-source software would you most like to see the code for?
#9- US air traffic control software - Software that drives the NYSE and NASDAQ exchanges - SpaceX Dragon vehicle controller (primarily what calculates the boostback trajectory on the fly) EDIT: Honorable mention: The Knight Capital codebase [1] Disclaimer: Please lawd don't let this put my on a watch list. [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-08-02/knight-sh...
I met someone who worked on air traffic control software and I think it would be scary to see.
Re: Ask HN: Which closed-source software would you most like to see the code for?
#10To me, this is the wrong question. I don't want software to be open source so I can read it. I want my software to be free (as in liberty), so I can decide how to use it, rather than it use me.