I'm sure they're fine with that. They'll just sell to the millions more Windows users.

As soon as you write a driver for it.
It's open source, after all. Nothing stopping you.

Once you're got a large enough demand, you can throw away the FPGA's and use custom silicon.
That would lower the power consumption even further.

If you can figure out how to charge the gate capacitor without damaging the insulating layer, you'll be rich.
Until then, don't complain

There's also probably a million other people in the world who can do your job.

Perhaps your small project isn't worth that much.

How is $50,000 significant for Microsoft?
Gross profit last year: $67,820,000,000

In some quarters, they're making more money than Apple.

$pple

Where? The United States of Australia?

You could have RTFA and saw the bit where it says

They don't plan on shining sunlight on the ice

MongoDB is Web-scale.

Let me get this straight.

You're proposing we send up assembly robots to dock on to old satellites and recover parts to attach to new satellites, just to save the weight of the salvaged part?

You then need to add a bunch of fuel to get your satellite in the correct orbit to get to the old satellite
More fuel to ship up the weight of this robot.
More fuel to get your satellite back in the orbit it needs to be.
More fuel to account for the extra fuel.

Just so potentially damaged and obsolete parts can be recycled?

Those pieces will have less energy though, due to some of it being absorbed in the impact.
Less energy means lower orbit, which if they're already in LEO as most of these cubesats are, a quicker decent time until they burn up in the atmosphere.

It's also a solution that requires a lot of fuel

Never listened to anything on NPR in my life.

Also never been to USA to have the opportunity.

Also not a fan of radio on the internet.