> - They've contributed more than 1700 changes to the Linux kernel that can easily be identified with a quick 'git log --grep' They're forced to. People want t

> - They've contributed more than 1700 changes to the Linux kernel that can easily be identified with a quick 'git log --grep' They're forced to. People want to use Linux. If a cloud provider decides they don't want to support Linux, it's business suicide. Microsoft's contributions to the Linux kernel, when I last checked, were almost exclusively related to Hyper-V. They're just doing what's good for them. If Linux was proprietary and enjoyed similar popularity, they would pay the owner to include these features.