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Ms should open source xp and let the community fix it
by themark 13y ago
Ms should open source xp and let the community fix it
- rplnt 13y agoThere should not be any XP at this point in time.
- nfoz 13y agoWhy not? People can do what they want with their computers. If someone likes XP, they are familiar with it runs on their hardware and their software is working etc., who are you to tell them what to do. The sad thing is they aren't getting security updates. If it was open-sourced, then people could keep their systems secure.
- rplnt 13y agoHow would security updates magically appear if XP were open sourced? And do you really think that people that use XP would somehow got to them? Maybe 1 out of 100 users of XP would care and seek how to patch that OS. Hence no one cares about making updates for that OS. For example my Fedora 16 and most installed software on it is open sourced and I don't receive any security updates. Why there are not groups of people making security patches for it? edit: If you are suggesting that users would go back to XP once it's opensourced then you don't have much faith in people.
- nfoz 13y ago> Maybe 1 out of 100 users of XP would care and seek how to patch that OS. That's a good number of people, I think. I would love to see them empowered to maintain their computers however they want. Security updates don't magically happen. But with open source, people who want to do them can put in the effort. That's the point. You could maybe sustain a business of being paid to maintain security updates for this magical open-source-XP. Or maybe some enthusiasts would choose to do it. Maybe they wouldn't. But we'll never know, because opens-source-XP will not exist.
- Dale1 13y agoThat's a very naive viewpoint from someone who doesn't work in industry.
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- jiggy2011 13y agoThe last thing MS wants is somebody to build a Linux distro with perfect legacy Windows compatibility.
- josefresco 13y agoI don't see how this would solve the problem at all. Microsoft already "fixed" XP, it's called Vista/Win7/Win8. The issue are existing people with older hardware that are locked into this old OS for one reason or another. Surely you don't think that MS can't fix XP do you?
- TheCoelacanth 13y agoIt's not that MS can't fix XP. It's that they don't want to. They don't want to spend money supporting ancient software that no one pays them for anymore.