Are you as virulent towards people that donate their time for recognition or their resume? Nobody doesn't anything altruistically. Microsoft doesn't have to either.
> Every single one of the Open Source projects and initiatives can be traced to the same monetary reason
VS Code and open sourcing their closed source .NET modules? Those are about building trust in the dev community. They have no direct correlation with profit. And even if they did that's ok.
> Azure or some other product.
So?
I nave claimed they did. That is the claim that was made, MS is "donating more time then they will ever get out" that was the claim
That is factually incorrect. They are getting more value from the Dev time they are putting into open source projects thus it is incorrect to say they are "donating" it, nor are they "giving more than they are getting" which was the comment I was replying to,
You can attempt to strawman and move the goal posts if you desire but it does not change reality
One primary example of them "donating" dev time is their Advancment of the Linux Kernal of which they have "become a top contributor" like the article says.
Why did they do this? To make Linux a First Class citizen on Azure so they can take on AWS... they did not "donate" this work out of some ethical kindness or wanting to "give back to the community" they did it to make money on Azure.
Every single one of the Open Source projects and initiatives can be traced to the same monetary reason, and largely traced to get Linux to work with some MS Commercial product of some kind, be is Azure or some other product.