Yep, in case of Linux the 'it's OSS. Download the tar.gz configure --enable-debug and deal with it' attitude hampered the development and use of something like a Symbol Server.

Microsoft has had it since at least 2005 - that's the first Visual Studio release I remember using it with - so it might have exited before that. It's things like these that separate MS from all others - Engineering culture of having to give 2 shits about other people - OEMs, developers, corporate IT, partners and having the chops to effectively address it at scale within their Engineering teams.