Microsoft is now a member of the Linux Foundation.

While the dev community makes OS wars, the company and the foundation is making love. Take them as role models.

Expect it to become less "making love" and more "roughly taken up the arse".

@d4ng3r0u5 thank you, sir, for proving my point.

Microsoft just wants to play with the cool guys

@Yeah69 don't forget that Microsoft is the company that followed the "embrace, extend, and exterminate" strategy (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/...)

@NathanDoesDev probably the whole Linux Foundation forgot that, too. So they didn't investigate and check the conditions before accepting Microsoft in.

@Yeah69 you expect there to be a clause that says "Microsoft promises not to embrace, extend and exterminate Linux?"

I mean I'm not saying that they for sure will do that. But it is a bit odd of them to join the foundation for a directly competing OS.

I agree they won't try to exterminate Linux but I bet they will use their position to keep Linux as a server-only OS and slow it's growth to mainstream computer usage.

@NathanDoesDev but they could like just reject the membership. If they wouldn't trust Microsoft, why should they accept? And I assume the people at the Linux Foundation are cautious about Microsoft, especially because of the past. I think the Linux people are not that naive to just invite the wolf into their house. Or do I have the wrong impression?

Also the best thing about Linux being open source is that anybody can watch the contributions. This makes it difficult to do mean stuff.

Microsoft goes where the money at...

Microsoft's server market is shrinking by the day, so they decided a change was needed and started porting it's dev environment to Linux ( SQL Server,.Net...) In an attempt to keep some market share,also they are ranked first in open source contributions because they are way past selling Windows for profit , as most big companies are, now it's cloud services and Data gathering.Welcome to the Data era .