It is part of their plan and Microsoft is not alone. Microsoft, Google and
Apple all use the opensource community for their ideas, they take, take and
take more, then contribute little to nothing back. Google contributes some
back.
The end game for all three is for the opensource world to go back to being
only for the domain of hackers, fine with that actually.
Look at what Microsoft did several years ago with Novell/SUSE, they still
control that company and by extension openSUSE as well.
Even RedHat cannot be fully trusted as they are beginning to dictate to the
opensource community of how things should be, ie systemd, gnome3, SELinux
etc... Whether you like systemd or gnome3, you cannot deny they were forced
on the larger community by RedHat.
This is one more reason why truly free distros need to be supported, and yes,
I do include Debian in this category. Their 20+ year stance cannot be argued
with.
