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."
Also at The Register and Wccftech.
(Score: 5, Funny) by petecox on Thursday January 30 2020, @02:44AM (2 children)
You're mistaken; it was a GNU jumping over a shark.
(Score: 3, Funny) by takyon on Thursday January 30 2020, @02:57AM (1 child)
It was a Stall Man.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 31 2020, @04:06PM
Nope. It was a Waltzing Matilda.