Re: Oh. Woo. Yay.
well, it's not the FIRST 'foot in the door' Microsoft has done...
they invested in Apple after being sued by them.
they effectively bought STAC after being sued. end of controversy.
many OTHER technologies have ALSO been "assimilated" by the Borg.
Why does this surprise anyone?
It's step 1 in TAKING OVER CONTROL OF THE PROJECT. Then it's "Microsoft Eclipse", no longer free, no longer java-centric, and as one person already suggested, includes the same kind of ad/spy-ware as windows 10 by "offering" you ".Not"-based solutions.
but first... MONO as a run-time dependency! You just wait, it's coming! [this may make gnome's stupid decision to go with 'gnome 3' and the resulting Mate desktop based on 'gnome 2' a "drop in the bucket" controversy].
Time to fork Eclipse. but what to call it... ?