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Re:Windows XP source code has leaked by stuaxo on Friday September 25, 2020 @05:08AM (#24587995)
XP was a bit crap in the early days, but by SP2 it was a lot better and by SP3 it was really solid.
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Re:Windows XP source code has leaked by rightbyte on Friday September 25, 2020 @02:15PM (#24592582)
It is quite sad that we might never experience that stability and usuability of commercial big apps/os anymore in the age of penny squeezing and spyware.

I had my Win XP, Photoshop and MS Office with ever lasting licsenses. You need FOSS today for that. As soon as you pay for software nowadays you are a loser, in general.

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Re:Windows XP source code has leaked by nix23 on Saturday September 26, 2020 @01:24PM (#24600495)
>As soon as you pay for software nowadays you are a loser, in general.

That is so true! I buy'd a Lifetime License for Insync and Jaikoz, Insync's lifetime was 4 Years (then they changed the license for updates) and Jaikoz "Lifetime" was 6 Years, change the name of the Software and split it in two different product and the 'old' one was not maintained anymore.

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