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AnIdiotOnTheNet on Sept 25, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Windows XP source code has leaked

They suffer from the same problem of requiring third party maintainers to keep software working.

Shared404 on Sept 25, 2020 [–]

I guess I've just given up on having a sole first party maintaining a sane system. It makes more sense to me to have something like Linux/BSD vs a first party system that falls apart worse while still being closed, despite being a consistent maintainer.

Which I guess brings me back around to where you started.

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