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1 posted on 08/24/2016 5:42:34 PM PDT by dayglored
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Open-source Windows??? Be still my beating heart... ... PING!

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2 posted on 08/24/2016 5:43:24 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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There aren’t enough programmers in the world to clean that OS up.


4 posted on 08/24/2016 6:08:33 PM PDT by GingisK
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Another possibility would be something that stands with respect to Windows, like Linux does to Unix. A Windows-alike environment. It doesn’t have to be the same as Windows from the ground up.


6 posted on 08/24/2016 6:28:59 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: dayglored

“Open Source Windows May Not Be that Big a Long Shot After All “

Oh! So THAT’S why Microsoft is totally destroying the Windows operating system. By the time it’s “open sourced”, it won’t be worth a hill of beans, so might as well just give it away at that point.


8 posted on 08/24/2016 7:18:53 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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The problem is just code, it’s structure (I can’t call it design).


9 posted on 08/24/2016 8:21:46 PM PDT by Ray76 (Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo!)
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