I don't know if it's too conspiratorial but this does seem like a sideways attack to "embrace, extend, extinguish" FOSS. By couching it in terms of FOSS being

I don't know if it's too conspiratorial but this does seem like a sideways attack to "embrace, extend, extinguish" FOSS. By couching it in terms of FOSS being "unethical", FOSS licenses can be whiddled away until there's either enough non-libre licenses to cause confusion or have a widely adopted alternative license that's unusable for business. I do notice that Stack Overflow is using a Microsoft technology stack. The author of the article has been part of Microsoft Research [1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_Overflow#Technology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_Overflow#Technology [1] https://stackoverflow.blog/author/david-gray-widder/ https://stackoverflow.blog/author/david-gray-widder/