The most significant change this acquisition brought to Flatcar was to turn it from a vendor-driven open source project to a community-driven one. Also see Kinv

The most significant change this acquisition brought to Flatcar was to turn it from a vendor-driven open source project to a community-driven one. Also see Kinvolk's statement at the time: https://kinvolk.io/blog/2021/04/microsoft-acquires-kinvolk/ https://kinvolk.io/blog/2021/04/microsoft-acquires-kinvolk/ Since then, the project has opened up and has become fully community driven - releases, features, stewardship, everything. To further underline independent stewardship, Flatcar was recently proposed to join the CNCF as an incubating project: https://github.com/cncf/toc/pull/991 https://github.com/cncf/toc/pull/991 .