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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."
Also at The Register and Wccftech.
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Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday January 30 2020, @02:51AM (1 child)
Windows customers have zero interest in source code, or anything that's done with it. They want a shrink wrapped product that they can be trained and certified to so they are employable in the big machine.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 30 2020, @03:09AM
Exactly, the Win 10 OE business is with the big PC makers (Dell, HP, Lenovo, Asus, etc) and there is no way they could sell large volumes of Win 7 computers these days.
It might be interesting to know if MS makes money on the extended support contracts that they are now offering for Win 7. My guess is that these are very demanding customers (technical/medical/etc) that have large investments in equipment that is tied closely to Win 7.