That's my point. It's not changing ethics, its just not being obtuse. A classic example is Apple under Jobs. They weren't ethical (locked down iPhone) but they

That's my point. It's not changing ethics, its just not being obtuse. A classic example is Apple under Jobs. They weren't ethical (locked down iPhone) but they weren't obtuse. WSL is a classic "shut up and take my money" - it's not open source, it doesn't let me write cross platform GUI, it just let's me keep windows as a desktop when me server is Linux. The only thing is that MS (under Ballmer) was obtuse and didn't realize they lost the server, and now they do. VSCode isn't cannibalizing their existing VS installations, its cannibalizing Sublime and Atom. So the most they spend on it is a team of programmers? It pays with mind share. With .NET core also, they realized that no startup will touch .NET on the server because they don't want to spend money on a windows license. As MS isn't interested in being Oracle, they OS .Net for the server. Note, they didn't OS .net for the desktop. What will happen when they'll be be on top again? Will they keep Open Sourcing things (like Google is doing) or will it go back to Closed Source vendor lockin?