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Originally Posted by Army
May be one day the penny will drop and people will just pay for hardware and software will become something that is supplied or shared - just think how much development work could have been done to XP if it was open source and legal to do so...
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The issue with making something like windows open source is that it then becomes the product of said developer who makes changes to it. Microsoft could not really then be held responsible to support it, and the burden falls to in-house IT and developers, which can lead to knowledge silo's....and that is never good. Also companies buying a closed-source OS know what they are getting, and the support that comes with it or that is available if needed. If everyone was running different distributions and mods of the same OS, interoperability on a large scale and software support on a large scale would become an intense nightmare. Its bad enough as it is! 
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