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Isn't it the case that some organizations do have negotiated access to the Windows source code?

Governments sure. For vetting purposes supposedly.

Private organisations/companies? Less likely. Would they even have the ability to do a build from the source code?

Yeah, there's definitely a program for private organizations https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/

"Supposedly"

Thanks for that one, I didn't put those together before.

Maybe, it's also true that 100% of Linux users legally have access to the Linux source code.