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Yep, but the other way around. Open source was Microsoft's fiercest enemy, and now it's managed to root deep inside the company, eating it from the inside out, turning Microsoft into something very very different than what it was 15 years ago. We won!

Everybody does open source now. IBM, Facebook, Microsoft, Google, you name it.

One way to look at is that code is no longer that interesting, data is more important.

Does any of those share their data under an open license?

Does, not, apply.

One could even say that GitHub was "embracing & extending" Git (pull requests, issue trackers, wikis) well before the acquisition.

solicitation then

That's Google's MO now.