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On January 14th, Windows 7 reached its official "end-of-life," bringing an end to its updates as well as its ten years of poisoning education, invading privacy, and threatening user security. The end of Windows 7's lifecycle gives Microsoft the perfect opportunity to undo past wrongs, and to upcycle it instead.
We call on them to release it as free software, and give it to the community to study and improve. As there is already a precedent for releasing some core Windows utilities as free software, Microsoft has nothing to lose by liberating a version of their operating system that they themselves say has "reached its end."
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Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software
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Vote for ME -- I'm well-tapered, half-cocked, ill-conceived and TAX-DEFERRED!
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Friday January 31 2020, @05:25PM
EOL means that regular support is at an end. Everyone knows that. It's like a human - it's old, it's dead, unless you're willing to pay for advanced life support to extend life for a while longer.
It's the same as in real life - some will opt for life support, others will say DNR. Still others will say "fuck this shit" and opt for euthanasia.
The FSF is just attention-whoring. Everyone knows it. Why should they stop making money off an older OS? They'd rather everyone just change to W10, because it's easier to support just one OS, but if they are going to have to pay to support W7 for those who don't want to upgrade, they're well within their rights to ask for money.
Same as if one of my old bosses asks me to work on software I haven't touched in a decade. Show me the money. I'm not going to fix it for free if it's non-trivial (trivial, sure I'll do it as a freebee, why not, just for the heck of it?)
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