comeonnowreally's comments

comeonnowreally · on July 25, 2017

The Raspberry Pi isn't open source. Broadcom only releases their firmware as binaries.

peter_retief · on July 25, 2017

I know, it is a concern, the hardware is as open and there is work afoot to release a completely open source pi, not sure how far they have got

jononor · on July 25, 2017

No the hardware is not open, there are no released schematics or layouts, and you cannot buy the chips from Broadcom.

comeonnowreally · on July 25, 2017

I'd be very surprised if Broadcom released the source code for their firmware. It would probably have to be a complete rewrite from reverse engineered specifications, like the original IBM PC BIOS was cloned. Except a lot more difficult as these firmwares are comparatively huge.

peter_retief · on July 25, 2017

I agree, though I did see some interesting projects, I don't have time to get involved though

comeonnowreally · on July 25, 2017

If you need regular restarts of SQL Server then there's something really quite wrong with your setup.

comeonnowreally · on July 25, 2017

Disappointing comments in this thread. Lots of worthless complaining, and scant technical talk on solutions to this barely significant 'problem'.

If you want to keep the original mspaint.exe and don't want to use the Store for some reason, you can literally just copy it from any Windows 10 install media prior to RS3. Or from a running system. It's not difficult.

skrebbel · on July 25, 2017

It has a lot of dependencies actually. No idea which of those also get removed.

comeonnowreally · on July 25, 2017

I think they're all dependencies shared by many other Windows components, and will probably mostly be the versioned API Sets rather than specifically named DLLs. But if there is anything Paint-specific it could just be copied over too.