Comment by martin-t

> Microsoft spent literal decades rehabilitating their reputation

I hated with a passion when people claimed "MS loves open source now". I feel vindicated.

If a corporation can do a 180° turn in one direction, it can do a 180° turn in the other direction just as fast. They did not understand that, either because they didn't want to or because they weren't smart enough to understand how incentives shape behavior.

The incentives or a corporation are roughly making money for "shareholders"[0], making money for the C suite, making money for managers.

[0]: = People who do none of the actual work but have enough money to use it to get more money which therefore goes to them instead of the people doing actual work. (Intentionally saying "get" instead of "make" because they don't "make" anything.)