Such a great, pragmatic, versatile programming language (C#), having a great FP side-kick (F#) that can be used next to it, and years of corporate experience an

Such a great, pragmatic, versatile programming language (C#), having a great FP side-kick (F#) that can be used next to it, and years of corporate experience and a great ecosystem of closed and open-source libraries, 3rd party tooling that really brings the experience to another level (LINQPad, Rider, Resharper)... .NET could stay closed source and everyone would happily keep using it, of course with very limited open-source adoption. Now they are being "shady" (For the lack of a better word, English is not my mother tongue. I'm not trying to be hostile to many good people working at Microsoft but this is how the signals the whole organization gives are interpreted. I hugely respect your work still), and that is putting doubts in the minds of their hardcore followers.