Windows contains a lot of stuff proprietarily licensed to Microsoft, so they don't have an option to turn all of it into free software even if they wanted to.
this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2024
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Is this a real window? If so the guy who designed it needs to be promoted. A useless fucking image takes more space than text view containing the longest wall of text known to man.
Don't worry, it gets better. The whole thing is a web app.
isn’t the windows 11 taskbar a web app?
Oh God, the line breaks!
There is probably a person with the power to inject the GPL into the license agreement, and if it does, it would destroy Microsoft as they'd now be legally required to cough up the source code for Windows
Take one for the team!
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