You seem to be confused. Atom is developed by a for-profit company which is owned by the for-profit megacorp Microsoft. For them open source is a PR move and a

You seem to be confused. Atom is developed by a for-profit company which is owned by the for-profit megacorp Microsoft. For them open source is a PR move and an employee retention measure, they just don't give a fuck if anyone is helping them out... at most they want to have contributors to help with PR and retention.