MS isn't doing any of the open sourcing from the goodness of their heart. They see that to stay competitive in the development tools space and cloud development

MS isn't doing any of the open sourcing from the goodness of their heart. They see that to stay competitive in the development tools space and cloud development space they need to open up their tech and make it work everywhere so they can sell services and tools to you. "I see you like linux? no problem here is our cool .net core platform you can use to build for linux. Btw you can run it on our azure linux instances and use all our easily integrated azure services to go with it. And with our new cross platform editor, a lot of this will be a couple clicks away."