They almost convinced some of the development community that there was a new spirit at Microsoft, but then they released Windows 10 all loaded up with spyware you can't turn off. Developers tend to be sensitive about such things, especially developers of open source software. With that one move they undid a lot of the progress they had been making in improving Microsoft's reputation among developers.they need developers from the open source world to not see them as malicious
Yeah, they're really churning that PR machine. I'm wondering if their ploy is to just Permissive-license some of their integral products so that A) They get suckers to fix their junk and B) If they do it enough then maybe some people will believe that they're not a horrible company.