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Yeah, now, and only because they lost and gave up. Some of us don't forgive past misdeeds so easily.
Besides, even to this day, most (if not all) of their "support" for open source is about getting it to play more nicely with Windows or trying to prevent people who insist on using open source from jumping ship to Linux, not supporting it for its own sake.
I'll believe Microsoft actually supports open source when they start porting things like Office or Flight Simulator to Linux, not before.
Yeah but I think that this highlights something quite well: Open Source is inherently corporate. It was created as a branch from the free/libre software movement, to extract it's open development model and make it corporate-friendly
"Open Source is just a corporate development model"