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by dvfjsdhgfv 2199 days ago
So much for Microsoft's professed "love" of open source. They love it only if it works in their interests making them money. Otherwise, not so much.

I love this infringing feature they mentioned:

"– Protect your privacy by tweak and customize Windows 10."

So basically they openly admit you have to give up your privacy in order to use their product. Neat.

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The project got hit for providing an ISO with license check removed, not for customizing windows. Over the last ~25 years I don't recall any of the windows customization tools getting hit with DMCA... because they didn't provide a technically illegal copy of the OS with them.
This is incorrect - the license check is not removed. (It's still a violation of copyright laws because they're publishing a derivative work without permission.)