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If it were open source it would be legal to copy it. Large corporations and OEMs that wouldn't consider pirating Windows would be happy to switch to using it f

• bluepnume 13y ago
  Surely that depends on the license though? It would be possible to license open-source windows in such a way that corporations and OEMs couldn't distribute it without paying a license fee.
  • plorkyeran 13y ago
    Such a license would not be an open-source license.
    • bluepnume 13y ago
      What? Surely this falls under the free-as-in-beer vs free-as-in-speech distinction? What about RHEL? -- that operates on a paid open-source model.
      • plorkyeran 13y ago
        And there's multiple free version of RH that are basically identical other than the branding and support.