Microsoft has been doing a lot of Open Source recently. Bryan Lunduke fears it's part of their "embrace, extend, extinguish" strategy, which boils down to embracing a project, adding proprietary extension, and then killing the competition off. He's not the only one, when Microsoft bought Github which is the central point of failure in Open Source right now, tons of people left Github in protest. Personally, I have no idea what to think :) I know some cool people working at Microsoft, but companies that get as big as Microsoft should always be taken with a grain of salt, so for the moment I can see both sides' arguments and support neither point of view fully.

Thanks for your overview of Utopian.io! I've heard about it but haven't taken the time yet to check it out, I really should do that now that Columns for Steem is Open Source and Steem Observatory will follow shortly once I got the code prepared for release on Github :)

I do plan to put all my projects I've written over the past few decades on Github as Open Source, as long as they're useful and in a workable state. I've written so many projects over the years that I either never published or that I had to stop working on because of time concerns, but maybe by Open Sourcing those, some of them can be made useful again :)