This is a placeholder page for a website that may develop as a repository for reverse-engineered documentation of closed-source software. The most attention is expected to be directed at Windows, producing an Opened Windows Library (OWL) as an alternative to Microsoft’s MSDN Library. Though OWL cannot hope to have anything like the MSDN Library’s breadth of coverage, what it does cover can be significantly more detailed and reliable, and it can cover functionality that the MSDN Library ignores.
The repository is intended from the outset as an openly collaborative project, to get as much as possible of the benefit of open-source development even for software whose source code is closed. Think of it as a Wikipedia of Windows documentation. I, Geoff Chappell, have started the ball rolling with a feasibility study, amounting to roughly 750 pages, mostly on the Windows Shell and Internet Explorer. This notice is an invitation to others, especially with different skills, to pick up the ball and run with it. Until that happens, this website can have nothing but these few placeholder pages.
A formal plan is in development. For information, whether as a potential user, contributor or financial supporter, write to info@soared.org.