A question about mandating Microsoft Windows to develop Microsoft Linux apps is off-topic on a Linux Foundation article about Microsoft?

> Linux Foundation article about Microsoft

*About Microsoft buying Github.

Yes, most definitely.

Github hosts many open-source Linux embedded projects that are optimized for Linux toolchains, not Visual Studio.

Well, if anything it's more 'meta' than the content of the article. But I suppose you just wanted to highlight it rather than pose it as a question :)

It’s a real question. It makes no sense that Microsoft would impose a hard requirement, they only need to make Visual Studio more convenient for open-source Linux developers, which should be trivially easy in comparison to any Linux embedded CLI toolchain.

If you’re Microsoft courting the open-source community to the the tune of $7.5B purchase of Github, and you are releasing the first Microsoft Linux kernel, why would you unnecessarily mandate the tying of Linux to a Windows toolchain, when you’re already going to win/earn a voluntary tie by competing on usability? What you want is developers voluntarily porting their Github embedded Linux open-source projects to Visual Studio.

New Microsoft should have a chat with vestiges of Old Microsoft.