M$‘s priority is to draw new people on their products and make people upgrade to higher tiers. Existing users are none of their concern. There are business models who will put the product team to focus on existing users. One way is an open source product run by the users community, another way is product relying on the effect of word of mouth.

Sadly not under the cold war we are having right now.

You can view and contribute, so do all the help possible but you can’t modify/rebuild/release a different version. That is not open source, that is called open to volunteer.

Open hardware is not something sustainable. Hardware does not enjoy the benefit of open source software.

Open projects inside the 3D printing community might be possible but anything requires heavier R&D would not work.

Ot let people opt-in if it is truly something great to have. Why put something on one wants there to “let people turn it off”?

That’s a bit slippery, but they sure are abusing our trust in the brand for this one.

I kind of love that they are not click-baity.

Thanks for answering How, now the real question is Why.

This is the only feature I am needing.

Firefox is open source and not chromium tho. Using Chromium still helps Google push their standard as the web standard. Firefox and Safari are the only two pillars standing up against Chromium we have now.

RSS feed sounds pretty amazing. What site can it read?

It worked in the history doesn’t mean it should be continued that way. Also neighbors and companies tended to share the same newspaper back then.

Writing was also a much rarer skill in the past.

It really should be “copy link” and “copy link with tracking”.

He won’t buy Nintendo nor Valve anytime soon. Valve is pushing Linux distro for a reason.