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: 2) by barbara hudson on Thursday January 30 2020, @04:39PM (1 child)
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(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday January 30 2020, @08:06PM
Copyright got its' start in 1710, before Disney even existed.
Yes, with an acceptably short duration, not the insanity we have today. Disney's law [those are the people that wrote it along with Sonny Bono, then rubber stamped by our elected officials] is a contemptuous ass. Rodney Dangerfield deserves far more respect.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..