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posted by n1 on Wednesday October 21 2015, @09:08PM   Printer-friendly
from the we-put-a-man-on-the-moon,-but-we-wont-do-that dept.

Microsoft's telemetry features in Windows 10 are a privacy advocate's nightmare. Now that Microsoft is trying to back port these "features" into existing versions of Windows, it seems like many of us have no future upgrade path. Sure there is Linux, but I have some older Windows software that I still want to use. ReactOS is still out there, but does not look like there have been any updates in a while.

Does the Soylent community believe it is possible to get this project going full steam to producing a useable alternative for existing Windows users?


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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 21 2015, @09:27PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 21 2015, @09:27PM (#252927)

    A broad swath of Industry, Government and a few universities could come together and standardize a Windows conpatible API/ABI and demand all purchases be compliance tested against that standard instead of whatever Microsoft ships. That would freeze a target long enough to catch it and make it worth catching.

    Ha! That's a good one.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 21 2015, @10:14PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 21 2015, @10:14PM (#252948)

    I must confess, you have an astonishingly good idea there, Doctor.