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Michiel Hendriks

Embrace, extend, and extinguish was not briefly the strategy. They have been doing that for more than two decades.

Also the statement that Microsoft is the biggest Open Source contributor is not true. It's based on a subset. Not all Open Source happens on GitHub. And just because MS has a lot of GitHub accounts doesn't make it the biggest contributor.

But even besides that. Microsoft Open Source contributions are mostly on their own Open Source projects, and maybe a few others but only out of self interest (e.g. improving Linux kernel compatibility for Azure. Microsoft is hardly involved in projects which are not their own.

If Microsoft cared so much about Open Source, why haven't they helped out the Samba team with documentation on the latest version of their SMB/DFS/etc. protocols, something which is important for Linux interoperability with Active Directory ?