Microsoft has never been about free software. They are however embracing open source in a manner that feels very sincere to me. For the record, the so-called

Microsoft has never been about free software. They are however embracing open source in a manner that feels very sincere to me. For the record, the so-called "spyware" is telemetry which exists only in the SDK for .NET Core and not the actual runtime that you would ship to the user with the software. It is anonymous data, completely open source so it really is only what they say it is, and the first time you use it it tells you how to disable it.