> Today, the company has a lot of standardized procedures and tools around the consumption of external open source That MS consumes open source for their own g

> Today, the company has a lot of standardized procedures and tools around the consumption of external open source That MS consumes open source for their own good comes not at all unexpected to me. However, consuming is not contributing. I believe you made to point that MS now contributes to the OSS community. I may have misunderstood. > I'm not sure what your point is about the reimplementation of the Linux kernel API inside Windows. Most large software companies build some amount of closed source software Most companies don't clone FOSS but build on top of it instead. Also most companies are pretty open about using OSS (crediting the projects and their source code). I haven't seen a single written line from MS crediting GNU and the Linux community for their work. They only credit MS and their own people. (Some recent examples: [0] [1]) [0] - https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/07/08/bash-on-ubuntu-on-windows-10-anniversary-update/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/07/08/bash-on-ubun... [1] - https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/heyscriptingguy/2016/09/28/part-1-install-bash-on-windows-10-omi-cim-server-and-dsc-for-linux/ https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/heyscriptingguy/2016/09/...