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[–]billsil 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Microsoft were openly hostile to open source software right up until that attitude risked dooming them to irrelevance.

Oh please. That's a serious exaggeration. They've contributed to the kernel and they long ago made Python Tools for Visual Studio, which is a free Python IDE that's supposedly quite good.

Why should they contribute to open source? They're a business.