In other words, you're saying it doesn't matter what they do, you've already made up your mind. And just to be sure, you don't want to hear anything that would contradict your opinion. Did I get that right?
Yes, because they don't garner any trust as an organization. They are merely courting today's developers which have voted wholesale to adopt other platforms instead of MS.
If MS releases their operating system under the GPL, I'll change my tune. Until then, it's all marketing and PR hype.
Their PR stunts are just a distraction, and all the happy foundation shit is likely all tax deductible anyways.
It does not matter that happy guy Satya is CEO, Bill Gates is still on the board and got away with all.
If a guy robs a bank then donates 1% of the money to charity, it doesn't change the fact that guy robbed a bank.
Ignoring the personal attack (the second I've received on this thread - no greater indicator of the quality of 'discourse' when it regresses to ad hominem), you almost managed to make one good point - the Linux commits are indeed mostly related to Azure and SMB.
Why do you act against your own self-interest?
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/02/ballmer_linux_is_a_... (2001)
https://youtu.be/86j8zOsmNFE?t=62 (2003)
> - They're now, or soon will be, the largest supporter of free infrastructure for open source projects on the planet (GitHub)
That's actually a bad thing. Open source needs resiliency and decentralization.
> - They've contributed more than 1700 changes to the Linux kernel that can easily be identified with a quick 'git log --grep'
A lot of that is so it can run better on Azure.
> - They're a platinum member of the Linux Foundation. In other words, they pay Torvalds salary
Torvalds' work provides them with more revenue than whatever they are paying the Linux foundation.
Not only revenue on Azure, but they also collect billions of dollars from phone manufacturers using Linux.
> What more do you want?
We want people on Microsoft's payroll to stop making noise on Hacker News.
We don't trust you. Cheap gifts won't make up for decades of bullshit. Bullshit that comes back each time someone suggests me to use MS Office, the ultimate embodiment of software monopolism.