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Petition asking Microsoft to open-source Windows 7 sails past 7,777-signature goal

David Austin

Agree: As a marketing and awareness exercise, it's hit all the goals, which frankly is probably as much as the FSF Hoped for.

Still, credit where it's due: Microsoft is making slow, tentative steps towards open sourcing certain technologies, which is great.

From a licensing, technical, and company ethos perspective, I think they're a way off giving the NTKernal crown jewel.

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