Perhaps the person you're responding to is referring to Microsofts old business practices that involved trying to segment open source projects with the intent o

Perhaps the person you're responding to is referring to Microsofts old business practices that involved trying to segment open source projects with the intent of making them inferior to Microsoft products? Open source, free software, call it what you want. In either case I don't think it's a good thing if Microsofts (or any other company) is trying to hurt the quality of software that is already available to everyone (with or without permissive licenses).