I'm a bit surprised at the response here. First the idea of the Valentine's day gift is to start a discussion around m$'s commitment to open source and their general attitude. For a group of people who champion open source, the response of "Oh but that wouldn't make financial sense for m$. 10 is just a continuation of 7, but what about engineering guys, FSF doesn't understand engineering" misses the point I think. I though not being able to support a product was one of the ultimate reasons for open sourcing a closed source project. Since the company does not want to spend resources supporting it (justified) as it focuses on new ventures. Leave it to someone who has time to support it and everybody wins. Legacy software that runs on 7 still needs to run until it doesn't. Open sourcing 7 could potentially lead some savy types to leave 10 and return to an open sourced windows 7 fork. But this would ultimately be a good thing and m$ would ultimately benefit from the contributions in one way or another. At the very least it gets a feel for what some power users really want. To think that the general population will leave windows 10 in droves for 7 is wishful thinking. Most importantly, let windows worry about how they will make money. With computing moving to the edge model, I doubt windows will keep selling os es forever anyways. The point the hard drive is that M$ can't have it both ways, It can't praise the benefits of open source and tout its new philosophy while keeping its unsupported legacy products closed. Good call out by the FSF

It's really a shame that they have been so far from monetization because for those who use it, it's really a great service. Whether it's listenning to mixes, publishing your sounds or seeking out new music to listen too, the Soundcloud user is a faithful one through and through. I know I would pay for my bandwith if it was super Cheap!! What if it was a paid only service. They would force the users to buy some bitcoins whatever and put them in a SC wallet. And then they can charge ridiculously minute amounts for tha actual bandwith you use. I like this better than the subscription model - A pay to play kinda thing Bottom line, Soundcloud has the potential to free up artists from publishers and stick it to the industry, it just needs a radical way of charging its users -> it just has to be really really cheap ;)

Amen to that, Netflix is like going to your friend's house and finding a couple of shelves of his favorite movies ( a very bad collection for the most part ) - with all the garbage out there, I m not looking to limit myself even further. Its bewildering to see netflix this successful in 2017 when they can just stream any content they want, legally and for free!