Since Flash and MS-Paint are going to be dumped, why not open source them?
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/petition-asks...
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2017/07/24/ms-pa...
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14845225
Open sourcing dead projects do have advantages for the licencors:
1. nobody likes the code they worked hard on to be dead
2. it's valuable free marketing for their brand name
3. they can charge for support
I can't see myself using the source for anything, especially since all browsers are dropping support for plugins. But I'd really want to see if the source is so bad that they couldn't fix the issues (crashs, battery usage), or if it died due to political reasons.