This is giving MS a lot of credit for having a long term plan. Isn't it just that all companies want to extend/embrace/control. This has happened with a lot

This is giving MS a lot of credit for having a long term plan. Isn't it just that all companies want to extend/embrace/control. This has happened with a lot of Open Source products recently. Didn't this just happen with Redis this year.? "The mission of the Microsoft Developer Division is to earn the trust and love of developers across all languages and platforms and make them successful as they build the applications of the future." Maybe the simpler explanation is that they want to make a good product? Which will mean it spreads out, and they do need some amount of control, thus the 'official' build. Of course, they are also shady. I lived through the Explorer lawsuit days. But even then, I think they stumbled into it, they didn't have much of a plan beyond control. All companies want to extend and control. OSS was supposed to be a counter to this. But seems like without some kind of 'pay' model where developers can actually 'live' and contribute, it eventually falls apart. There are just not as many people willing to spend nights and weekends developing and especially SUPPORTING OSS for free. So any OSS tools that are good and widespread, and don't have some support like research funding, get co-opted. Maybe a non-profit company is the best way. But we've seen how that turns out if it actually takes off, like OpenAI.