# FSF Sends Microsoft A Blank Hard Drive For Sending Back The Windows 7 Source Code **URL:** \ **Category:** News & Articles\ **Tags:** windows\ **Created:** [February 16, 2020, 1:05am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/fsf-sends-microsoft-a-blank-hard-drive-for-sending-back-the-windows-7-source-code/69874 "2020-02-16T01:05:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TheJoker](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/thejoker/32/22660_2.png) [@TheJoker](https://onehack.st/u/TheJoker)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2020, 1:05am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/fsf-sends-microsoft-a-blank-hard-drive-for-sending-back-the-windows-7-source-code/69874/1 "2020-02-16T01:05:59Z")
The Free Software Foundation sent Microsoft a hard drive for Valentine’s Day – along with [a petition calling for the release of the source code for Windows 7](https://www.fsf.org/windows/upcycle-windows-7) (which is no longer supported by Microsoft): [![](https://static.fsf.org/nosvn/windows/winupcycle_text.png) ](https://static.fsf.org/nosvn/windows/winupcycle_text.png) > It’s as easy as copying the source code, giving it a license notice, and mailing it back to us. As the author of the most popular free software license in the world, [we’re ready to give them all of the help we can](https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/why-freeing-windows-7-opens-doors). All they have to do is ask. > > We want them to show exactly how much love they have for the “open source” software they mention in their advertising. If they really do love free software – and we’re willing to give them the benefit of the doubt – they have the opportunity to show it to the world. We hope they’re not just capitalizing on the free software development model in the most superficial and exploitative way possible: by using it as a marketing tool to fool us into thinking that they care about our freedom. > > _Together, we’ve stood up for our principles. They can reject us, or ignore us, but what they cannot do is stop us. We’ll go on campaigning, until all of us are free._