People too young to remember the anti-trust days will deny it, but there is no good reason to trust that this isn't Microsoft's long term plan. You'd be a fool to believe Microsoft has the best interests of the open source community at heart.
Microsoft has their own selfish reasons for wanting people to use powershell, while at the same time MS open sourcing powershell and providing it as a cross-platform tool people can use on their platform of choice benefits the open-source community?
Do you honestly think the open source projects from the likes of Apple, Google, Amazon, Twitter or Facebook is based on their good wishes and interests for “the open source community” (whatever that may be)? Really?
Or the good old day's when Ultrix ran like a racehorse on 4MB of ram (it did BTW!).
We don't do our credibility any favor when we live in the past and don't update our worldview based upon current facts.
Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]
So forgive me if I'm cynical of your company's current PR efforts.