Why can’t it be both?

Microsoft has their own selfish reasons for wanting people to use powershell, while at the same time MS open sourcing powershell and providing it as a cross-platform tool people can use on their platform of choice benefits the open-source community?

Do you honestly think the open source projects from the likes of Apple, Google, Amazon, Twitter or Facebook is based on their good wishes and interests for “the open source community” (whatever that may be)? Really?

Those youngings probably don't remember what the Germans and Japanese did in the 40's either.

Or the good old day's when Ultrix ran like a racehorse on 4MB of ram (it did BTW!).

We don't do our credibility any favor when we live in the past and don't update our worldview based upon current facts.

Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]

Current facts: Microsoft shoves ads into the start menu and file explorer, collects a ton of telemetry, resets application associations during updates, and does its best to hide the ability to setup a local-only account during install in its pay-for operating system.

So forgive me if I'm cynical of your company's current PR efforts.

And the people that remember take notice of how google/apple are doing a lot worse in that space.