Nor do I. They have no obligations. Nobody implied that. We just said not doing so made them freeloaders.

I do not. I do collaborate by open sourcing most of me development, and contribute into various proyecto thourgh various means. Also, I'm not saving $100 by using linux in my computer because I have not migrated from something propietary.

Relevancy?

No, they have no responsability to give anything back. Nor I, nor GP stated that this was the case.

Can you please describe why the concept is laughable?

Making it available doesn't mean they're giving back any of those 36M though. It's pretty cheap to make it available once comparted to creating it.

The real question is: how mucho of those 36M will be reinvested into FLOSS development.

Just be thankful that today's headline doesn't have typos in it!

I fail to see the correlation between dropping XMPP support and standalone clients being more efficient. There's plenty of standalone clients for XMPP, and there have been for many years.

Not if you rely on cross-platform components and libraries. I develop and test on linux, but all my servers are BSD. I've never had any issues due to them being different platforms. Just make sure you don't use anything OS-specific and you'll be fine.

It's not the first time they send out this message. Didn't you hear about them dropping gtalk, and with it, XMPP support?

I understand why you would no work with windows, but why be so extreme as Linux-only?

Not really. People that seldom use Office won't really have adapted in that period of time, because it's the only app out there that uses it.
For example, I've deal with ribbon once or twice during this time, but use menubars on a daily basis.

The problem is that, while ribbon is more intuitive, it has no room for advanced and experienced users to get faster. They'll use the UI at the same speed after years, because there that's all there is to it. Menubars have greater learning curve, but have more room to keep on learning and becoming more efficient.

Office with no ribbon?
https://www.libreoffice.org/

Yes, full. Only on limited scenarios (not the most common ones, BTW).

These are all the usual network settings. Sure, there's edge cases, but the idea is to cover the basics.

That's a microsoft-only made-up standard. Not only that, but using that address space was deprecated in 2004, so implementeing is actually incompliant.

It's based on a browser. I'm guessing their content source will be what we call "The Internet". Millons of videos ready to watch.

Uhm... 64bit firefox has been around for over half a decade. Wake up, dude!

Contact syncing? (eg: CardDav). That's been on their plate for years, and it's a pretty important feature nowadays that we have stuff like smartphone which we want to keep in sync.

There's a few other critical features/issues still open which never got the attention they deserved.

The linux proyect does not distribute any GNU code. Third parties create "GNU/Linux" distrinutions, and some of them mention GNU intheir name (eg: Debian GNU/Linux).