tbh I’m surprised that you even got upvotes, didn’t went that well for me with a similar answer on another post…

But it works well for public opinion, which is what politicians care about most, unfortunately

No. Windows ships already well compressed. There’s no way it’ll compress further by 50%.

I’ve been getting about that rate of compression consistently with Clonezilla on windows 10. I also didn’t have any problems relocating it… it just start a driver update step and then reboots normally, but idk about how licensing work for this cases.

Which bridge do you use? do you self-host it?

I’ll add something which is not mentioned: Unreal Engine, one of the most popular game engines, is source available, but not open source. Many games modify it but its then impossible to release those sources. I’m guessing that it’s the same with many other engines…