The problem there is the decades. They've done an extremely solid job with PR over the last five, maybe ten years. Now everyone knows Microsoft are lovely peopl

The problem there is the decades. They've done an extremely solid job with PR over the last five, maybe ten years. Now everyone knows Microsoft are lovely people making everything better. The prior behaviour can perhaps be forgotten. Though they acquired github (to be nice) and fed all the GPL'ed code they could find into LLMs (to be nice) and now open source is moribund, which is rather in keeping with the effect of previous strategic moves, but sort of plausibly deniable as an aggregate effect.