• AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Big hardware companies used to get access to the windows source code all the time. It didn’t make it public, but lots of people have seen it by now.

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      1 year ago

      I’m not trying to defend Microsoft, but their software isn’t licensed under the GPL so they really aren’t under any obligation to share the source code.

      There are alternatives and people can choose to use Microsoft software or not.