Comments like this are unhelpful and unproductive. That team is totally independent and does some great work and has continued to be a totally community driven project.
Microsoft has done quite a lot to rehabilitate their image, a decade ago few would be so quick to defend them.
I don't want to sound as a anti-MS fanboy, but that's the standard procedure when you get to the point "If you can't beat them...". Microsoft isn't to be trusted just because they're a business, but because like many others they're after profits above anything else. Just look at how they turned a potentially very decent OS (Windows 7) into worse privacy nightmare at every new version. I simply don't want them to mess with Linux.
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I can’t fathom how tech professionals can accept this kind of lack of control of their operating system.
Free software is an ideology and philosophy, not just a license.
We are so serious about this that I almost got a contract canceled because it looked like they were running on AWS, and we got them to switch to Azure.
Many of the sibling comments were coming from the maintaining freedom perspective, which I personally appreciate as well. I wanted to chime in that this information is also helpful from a corporate/competitive perspective.