Microsoft said Wednesday that it has released almost all of its emoji designs to GitHub and Figma, allowing anyone to tweak and design their own. Microsoft isn’t saying that you’ll be able to use your ...

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How can something that doesn’t have source code be “open sourced”? Making something freely available for use under an MIT license doesn’t make it open source; similarly, commercial software under ...