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kenjackson 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpo...

Probably some amount. I agree Windows is strategic, but do definitely could see them giving it away and/or fully open sourcing it.

pjmlp 3 months ago [–]

It is most likely impossible, given the amount of code that is probably still under contractors copyright, or other kinds of licenses.

rswail 3 months ago | [–]

They don't have to provide the source to give the OS away for free.

The difference between BSD and GPL in one sentence.

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