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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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If bankers can count, how come they have eight windows and only four tellers?
(Score: 1, Troll) by barbara hudson on Thursday January 30 2020, @03:05AM
It's become apparent that the financial model for free software doesn't work for most developers. Now the FSF is just trying to stay in the public eye to pay their own salaries, not to advance the state of the art. If they wanted to be relevant, they could have worked on discovering new financial models for free software, but no, developers should be dependent on large corporations and begging for donations.
They're stuck in the 1980s. You know, their administrators and lawyers and fundraisers get paid, and everyone else gets exploited because they don't need to be paid to "live their dream job."
Aren't there a few game companies that tried that shit?
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