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Re:Microsoft Donated Money to Gnome: Remember How They Attac... by wilsonnb3 on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @09:54AM (#31823979)
> You want them to change their name, open source Windows?

Open sourcing windows would be a good start!

I would settle for them not polluting their flagship open source project VSCode with proprietary extensions, though.

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Re:Microsoft Donated Money to Gnome: Remember How They Attac... by phendrenad2 on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @12:57PM (#31826253)
Interesting. I wonder how much the Microsoft hate is just people like this who just want everything to be open-source, and Microsoft is just the largest most obvious target for their activism.
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Re:Microsoft Donated Money to Gnome: Remember How They Attac... by ChuckNorris89 on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @04:12PM (#31828585)
This horse has been beaten to death a million times already.

Microsoft can't open source Windows since it's full of third party code they licensed and don't have the rights to open source. Probably also why apple couldn't open source MacOS.

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