They embrace OSS because they are converting Windows to Linux under the hood. They think that their software business as they know it is over and OSS should take care of it more and more. They will focus on their UI and Azure in the future.
To make it easier to get free labour and have more control, they buy OSS tools like GitHub and NPM and try to make them more accessible for the MS ecosystem.
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They embrace OSS because they are converting Windows to Linux under the hood. They think that their software business as they know it is over and OSS should take care of it more and more. They will focus on their UI and Azure in the future.
To make it easier to get free labour and have more control, they buy OSS tools like GitHub and NPM and try to make them more accessible for the MS ecosystem.