Wasn’t France the one that started switching to Matrix and funded a bunch of improvements?
It’s great that Germany is doing the same, I just remember Matrix talking about money from France and helping the French government deploy Matrix for government use back in the day. A lot of the E2E encryption improvements were attributed to their collaboration with France at the time
That’s already how it functionally worked for each major release
Here’s their previous strategy: https://web.archive.org/web/20220917195332/source.android.com/docs/setup/about/codelines
Google works internally on the next version of the Android platform and framework according to the product’s needs and goals
When the n+1th version is ready, it’s published to the public source tree
The source management strategy above includes a codeline that Google keeps private to focus attention on the current public version of Android.
We recognize that many contributors disagree with this approach and we respect their points of view. However, this is the approach we feel is best and the one we’ve chosen to implement for Android.
As far as I can tell, this would really only affect QPRs, since the public experimental branches that get made after they throw the next release over the wall is going away
Oracle happened to it
All the devs went to LibreOffice after that
Kind of seems like they simply installed this dude’s tarpit from a few months ago
Where did Microsoft put an official announcement saying the statement from an official Microsoft employee, Jerry Nixon, speaking at an official Microsoft conference, Ignite, was incorrect?
Edit:
When reached for comment, [Microsoft] didn’t dismiss them at all
Recent comments at Ignite about Windows 10 are reflective of the way Windows will be delivered
https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/7/8568473/windows-10-last-version-of-windows
My naive reading is the difference here is HP slapped a discount sticker on it without changing the price.
Where Kohls, et. al. set the price extremely high and then always have it “on sale.”
Now, how companies get away with doing the same thing for Black Friday, no idea