[rvz]

> Microsoft is a completely different company than it was even just 5 or 10 years ago. Saying that MS is an enemy of open source is uninformed at best and idiotic at worse.

Rather than fighting the target directly, they are embracing it at first; and this time, the target is open-source and the developers. They are doing it again and are targeting where the developers are: Hence their involvement with GitHub, Xamarin, Linux Foundation, Chromium (MS Edge), WSL 2, VS Code, TypeScript and Azure and it is working for them.

The company has not changed. Only the target has, and they are already embracing them and slightly started to extend.

[genmud]

Sounds like no amount of evidence will convince you, even with evidence that contradicts your opinion. The stuff you are talking about was the strategy for most big software vendors in the 90's/early 2000's. They sold software licenses and support.

If you look at current MS, it is all about services. Services do better when you have a larger addressable market and not embracing OSS will reduce who they can sell to, which is why they are going to.

VS Code is a perfect example, MIT License... OSS, wide support and well regarded.