"Microsoft can free up Windows. They already have all the necessary legal rights or the strength to get them. Whether they decide to do it or not depends on them." The Free Software Foundation continues in its campaign Windows 7 "release" request, i.e. publishing in open source and as free software. A campaign that has attracted criticism and praise but which is not, in any case, without merits, and which continues now with sending a recycled disk to Microsoft that the company should copy the Windows 7 source code to.
The Free Software Foundation sends a disk to Microsoft to obtain the Windows 7 code
"We want them to show exactly how much they love open source software that they mention in their advertising. If they really love free software – and we are willing to give them the benefit of the doubt – they have the opportunity to show it to the world. Hopefully they are not just taking advantage of it. the model of development of free software in the most superficial and profiting way: using it as a marketing tool to deceive us and lead us to believe that it matters our freedom. " These are the words of the Free Software Foundation to comment on the request to publish the source code of Windows 7.
The request comes after a collection of signatures among users and is now accompanied by a further provocation: sending a hard disk to Microsoft so that it can load the Windows 7 source code on it. The FSF claims that it is a disk recycled, as well as Microsoft should recycle Windows 7 publishing the sources.
There is no doubt about the fact that Microsoft will not make Windows 7 open source. However, it is not certain that the company does not decide to publish new portions of its operating systems code, since it has already published some components.
You can read the full message of the Free Software Foundation at this address.