On: Running postmarketOS on iPhone 7

[ianai]

A better analogy is Microsoft word. The original source code was lost. It’s now relying on a reverse engineered code base from someone outside of Microsoft.

[caspper69 → ianai]

Perhaps you are remembering this incident (which involved Equation Editor, a component of Office): https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-ap...

[bentcorner → ianai]

"Original source code" is an imprecise term for a project that has been under development for decades.

But your claim is verifiably false: https://computerhistory.org/blog/microsoft-word-for-windows-...

[tramtrist → ianai]

Is this true? I've never heard this before.