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(Unverified)Feb 22nd 2007 1:41PM
@Unearthed
No, for two reasons. First, you'd have to get access to Microsoft's source code. Since it isn't open source, they'd have to let you do it and they would require a non-disclosure agreement. Second, Once you take the source code and compile it, you have a product that is almost identical to Microsoft's. If you tried to distribute it, they would most certainly come after you for copyright infringement. Not for creating a copy of the source code but for creating the finished product.
Personally I hope Microsoft wins this case. I think software patents go against the very spirit of the patent process by detering innovation (for fear of infringing on a patent) instead of motivating new innovation. The very nature of software is that each generation builds on previous generations to improve.