It actually is.

The most hot-tempered and foul-mouths were shot down fast "in the old west", I believe.
Thankfully (esp. for Linus), no one is killing others today, because it's the internets.
...Oh, almost so.

"I buy tea regularly, why do I never see an ad for tea." - Pshhh, please, keep SILENT or THEY will hear that!..

RE: "It is not intended for normal use and it is not intended for production environments."
...
- MS Windows Vista time is over, cmo!
MS Windows 7 time is over, cmo!
MS Windows 8 time is over, cmo!
Get over it. They are not intended for normal use and nor intended for production environments.

...

- Ms Win 10? Mmmm, GOODIE!!!

"Escape"

A bad choice, obviously: it's not compatible with a WinXP pencil!

"If the police raids their Russian offices they don't have the excuse "our data is stored abroad" anymore."
- Meaning soon we will see laws prohibiting any type of strong encryption in Russia.

PS:
Put in 1 phrase: "All your database are belong to us!"

So, in response to a tough competitor - taxi and limo drivers decided to... make their own service even worse for a day?! Great tactics!..

What else could they do in the threat of Uber coming to town?
Beating their clients might work? Maybe, just being rude?

I work hard (he works hard) everyday of my life
I work till I ache my bones, at the end (at the end of the day)
I take home my hard earned pay all on my own
I get down (down) on my knees (knees)
And I start to pray (praise the Lord)
'Til the tears run down from my eyes
Lord somebody (somebody) oooh somebody (please)
Can anybody find me...

- a killer for silly commenters on the internet?!

It's a market demand, why business does not deliver it?!

What's wrong with using both of them and / or Privacy Badger from EFF?

Would be a clear winner advertising campaign for MS, as neither Apple nor Linux distros offer free apples or gnus with their OS.

Windows, if you can afford buying them!

Was it intentional?
(How do you know)?

Have they got the support back in other (think Cyanogen) ROMs?

Everyone can still install the app from the official CM web-site OR start thinking about switching to some competing app market. With Apple, you will come back to use the same app store, whatever outrage impulse you had. I see some difference here...

Will Apple sue it?

The first ddg search "Windows 8 sales" got me here:
PC Sales Plunge Due To Windows 8: Report - The Huffington Post

- Looks like if mass consumer "is given the choice" of having a windows 8 PC only or NOT having a PC overall, he prefers NOT having a PC at all (and goes now for something completely different, ie some tablet /mobile phone /PC-on-a-Stick instead))