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On 2025/6/30 0:53:39, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Jun 2025 22:32:30 -0700, T wrote:
> 
>> On 6/28/25 8:22 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sat, 28 Jun 2025 18:23:16 -0700, T wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 6/28/25 3:58 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> No guarantees that those “things removed” will not break some crucial
>>>>> piece of software that you need to run, though. Is it Open Source?
>>>>> Can you submit patches to fix it?
>>>>
>>>> I do not think you understand.  It "is" Windows.
>>>
>>> No, you yourself said it is “Windows with things removed”.
>>
>> Nothing is added.
> 
> You’re not refuting my point.
> 
>> A bunch of undesirable things have been removed.  And
>> by following M$ own directions.
> 
> Why is it you cannot get Windows already in that form from Microsoft
> itself?

According to earlier in this thread, it is done by following 
instructions from Microsoft itself. So, in theory, you could - but that 
would involve obtaining the full thing, then finding and following those 
instructions yourself.>
>> Everything is above board.
> 
> So you keep insisting, in spite of the evidence to the contrary.

Presumably, if anything wasn't, M$ would have sat on the company 
involved. (From what I've read here, it still requires activation.)>
>> Do you have similar issue with Rufus which does some of the same things
>> in the same manner that Tiny 11 does?
> 
> That’s happening in the privacy of the user’s own machine. If they were to
> redistribute the mutated version of Windows that comes out of Rufus (or
> whatever other unauthorized hacking tool), then that would take us back to
> this point.
I don't know about Rufus; the claim is that this has been produced by 
following M$'s own instructions, not an "unauthorized hacking tool".If 
you look at the webssite, there is no attempt to conceal the fact that 
"full" W11 is supported by M$, whereas 11 lite isn't.
(Casual observer here, though who used 98SElite back in the day and 
approve of the _principle_ offered here. [It's a _long_ time ago, but 
IIRR the _main_ thing omitted by 98lite was IE, which it was strongly 
implied had to be included. Though I think a few other frills were also 
removed, because they also did something called IEradicator that _just_ 
removed IE.] At present, I intend to stick with 10 [and 7 on that machine].)
-- 
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