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“I don’t want to fight old battles, I want to fight new ones.” - Satya Nadella

Microsoft donated an entire architecture work to NetBSD...

They've done it before, with Novell. (And, arguably, Nook.)

Microsoft released a version of Unix when Linus Torvalds was 11 years old.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix

Sure, but releasing a commercial Unix is different than investing in a Linux company. The former is less inconsistent with popular anti-Linux perception of Microsoft than the latter.