When I thought about MS could potentially buy Redhat and Canonical and such and swallow the major open source companies with cash, I woke up sweating.
Worst-case scenario people would just rewrite parts of the stack to move around it. There's people salivating at this very moment just thinking about rewritting core stuff in Go, Rust, or something else, and making a blog post about it. Imagine if they had an actual motive to do it.