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		danielweber on April 8, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft ends support for Windows XP and Office 2... If you are a major customer, like many national governments are, you can get the source code to a lot of Windows.

drchaos on April 9, 2014 [–]

Access to the source code is one thing, but you'd need also developers who are familiar enough with the source to be able to actually make changes. With OSS, there is a large community from which you recruit these folks, with Windows, not so much (outside of MS).

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