Sadly I found out yesterday:

Matrix is not a community-based software, it was born [00] in Amdocs [01], a multinational corporation founded in Israel.

https://hackea.org/notas/matrix.html

Many were claiming its impossible to get contributions merged as well.

I would be happy to find out this information is wrong or outdated.

I use Linux in part because it makes building software easier.

Its an alias, so no problem.

Most statically typed languages can’t because they don’t implement Hindley-Milner type inference.

If some has to know to unplug the internet, try to sign up, and force an error to bypass sign up…

It is forcing.

Microsoft sucks for this, outlook, “open source vscode”, and many other reasons.

That said my current workaround is to use sourcegraph.