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by Dalewyn 931 days ago
The point I am making is that both Google (insofar as their open source software) and Microsoft both pay programmers to write and examine their code. That was the original criteria, and working off that you shouldn't have a problem with Microsoft.

Of course, you do have a problem as you've already made clear. However, that problem stems from how Microsoft's code is closed source compared to Google's open source code. That's religious FOSS dogma which I referred to earlier, and has nothing to do with whether programmers are paid to write and examine your code.