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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday January 30 2020, @02:07AM   Printer-friendly
from the pull-the-other-one dept.

Upcycle Windows 7

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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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday January 30 2020, @03:05PM (1 child)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday January 30 2020, @03:05PM (#951193) Journal

    a pig fly

    This is like a horse fly but for pigs?

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by DeVilla on Thursday January 30 2020, @10:14PM

    by DeVilla (5354) on Thursday January 30 2020, @10:14PM (#951457)

    You joke, but several people still don't believe swine flu.