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Re:Ask HN: Your favorite open source applications/softwares? by pestaa on Saturday January 21, 2012 @09:40AM (#3493642)
How does "windows" qualify as an open source application? Certainly not as Microsoft(R) Windows(TM) I suppose.
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Re:Ask HN: Your favorite open source applications/softwares? by bmelton on Saturday January 21, 2012 @04:29PM (#3494686)
I suppose it depends on how you define 'open source', but Windows has released the source to those willing to sign an NDA and all that.

I know a few people with copies.

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Re:Ask HN: Your favorite open source applications/softwares? by dholowiski on Monday January 23, 2012 @03:09PM (#3501905)
No matter how you define open source, windows isn't it. At the best, it's been called 'shared source' in the cases you mentioned, but that is a long way from open source.
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Re:Ask HN: Your favorite open source applications/softwares? by bmelton on Monday January 23, 2012 @03:13PM (#3501928)
I agree, I was just trying to give the OP the benefit of the doubt.
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