Microsoft is asked to give Windows 7 a second chance, opening the source

On January 14, Microsoft finally stopped supporting the Windows 7 operating system.

receive updates and security patches. However, users do not want to say goodbye to Windows 7 and are asking to give it a second chance.

What came up

Free Software FoundationSoftware Foundation) has created an electronic petition “Upcycle Windows 7” with a request to open the source code of the system. As a result, developers will be able to study, improve and distribute it.

The authors of the petition also call on Microsoft to respect the freedom and privacy of users, and not simply force them to switch to new versions of Windows.

Under the petition, they plan to collect symbolic 7777 signatures. While there are a little more than 3200 votes.

By the way, there are already several precedents when the company opened the source codes. Although with Windows 7 everything is more complicated, because Microsoft has long been trying to transfer users from Windows 7 to Windows 10.

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