[moe]

no reason to be snarky

Really?

Until very recently Microsoft did actively fight the OSS movement with claws and teeth. Now they suddenly embrace us and we're not even allowed to be snarky?

Sentiments aside; as Antirez points out, supporting a win32-port would be a ball on a chain. If Microsoft really suddenly wants to be friends then they should step up and maintain a fork on their own budget instead of throwing a half-baked patch on the floor and expecting someone else to gift ongoing support to a for-profit company.

Otherwise, in my very personal opinion, they can just go to hell.

[nitrogen]

I would have upvoted this post, but for the last line. Much of Microsoft's past (and indeed some of its present) is tarnished with unfair competition through secret agreements, patents, etc., but there's probably a better way to express the resentment that has caused.