Usually, in the past, when their outsourced PR teams make a lot of noise it is to distract from something bad happening elsewhere. Since there is not a lot going on in the courts lately my guess would be something like this:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/28460...indows-95.html
all that bug needs now is its own logo and web site. There were many, many articles starting to pop up but they have all vanished from the top of their repsective publications and mostly even from Google. It took a few minutes searching for known phrases from that article to find even that one again.
About the allegations of promoting Free and Open Source Software. It would be cool if it were true, the products would have a fighting chance at improving their quality to something acceptable, but it is not likely. Going FOSS would be too much of a sea change for the company management and against the entire multi-decade history of the company. Gates, via Nadella, does not have in place yet the 'services' business model which could build upon FOSS. It is more likely that they are promoting either an open-core model or freemium, neither are OSS let alone FOSS. Unfortunately, to find that out, it will take more than glancing at the misguided headlines that most repeat articles are based on.
The devil is in which license is used and to what it is applied.
Their own official press release is hard to parse but it looks like they are talking only about changes to various versions of VisualStudio, which is neither FOSS nor runs on Ubuntu. My other guess is that you have to have Windows to even download the terms and conditions. Between that and not being a lawyer, it will be hard to impossible to look into.
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