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I wonder what program XML files will open in by default instead of WordPad… [0]
Maybe XML Notepad? [1]
[0] https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/chang...
[1] https://github.com/microsoft/XmlNotepad
Source code: https://github.com/wine-mirror/wine/tree/master/programs/wor...
> Plenty of open source apps are abandoned. The maintainers get tired, too busy, or whatever.
Other people can pick up the baton. For example my window manager of choice is Window Maker which was abandoned for literally years (fortunately since the underlying tech doesn't change every other month, it still kept working) before someone else it picked it up and nowadays there are a few developers working on it.
> If it was open source, the odds are no one would care to take over maintenance (though they could) since it’s basically redundant at this point.
When Microsoft opensourced winfile[0] (the file manager from Win3.x/NT 3.x) some developers did flock to it (i personally even added a small feature to allow for multiple file masks which was merged), so i'm pretty sure the same would happen for an opensourced wordpad.
[0] https://github.com/microsoft/winfile
from https://github.com/microsoft/VCSamples/tree/master/VC2010Sam...
"The WordPad sample demonstrates how to implement an application that imitates the functionality of WordPad, including the user interface elements and some of the capabilities."
I should have known it wasn't the real WordPad source code since this version is written using MFC and C++.
C++ was not an approved programming language for Win95 in its quest to run on Brad Silverberg's (Win95 manager) mom's 4MB RAM PC.