The author said that in the last line. Highlight the part of the essay where he is claiming MS didn't have a right to do what they did. The point of the artic

The author said that in the last line. Highlight the part of the essay where he is claiming MS didn't have a right to do what they did. The point of the article was that MS showed interest in his work, asked him about his designs. Said nothing about internal plans to fork it or use it. Then he shows up to a talk and sees them discussing his work. Reading between the lines, it is 100% clear they didn't feel like telling him they planned to fork his software, and they danced around it. They didn't reach out to him afterward and say "thanks, we are building a fork and your free time was really useful". The essay isn't claiming a legal issue. It's pointing out a substantial, practical issue with OSS that didn't exist nearly as prominently in the pre-cloud era: megacorps forking software and cutting out the OG developers.