MAmatt4077·May 17, 2017
I don't want to get all righteous, especially considering some excellent projects I've seen from Microsoft such as VSCode, but it feels like you may not understand the culture of the community you're trying to reach.
First, let me say that there's nothing wrong with closed-source software. If Microsoft wants to create the best node.js dev and/or production environment ever, and if it does so without violating any OSS licenses (which are mostly MIT, so it's possible), more power to them (/you).
However, if you call it an "open source [...] platform", and you host the source code on Github, and you're soliciting and accepting PRs from the public, then you may be creating all sorts of headaches for yourself and others. Yes, people should check the licenses for software they use. But as it is right now, many people will take the project's tag
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line at face value, and may be reminded of a very different Microsoft if, at some point, some other division at MS decides to crack down on the illegal use of this source code, or when you turn people's contributions into a closed-source project.
Edit: the projects also reference Microsoft's "Open Source Code of Conduct", and they are listed at https://opensource.microsoft.com/?keyword=glimpse. I've filed an issue at https://github.com/Glimpse/Home/issues/109