IDG Contributor Network: Linux has won, Microsoft joins the Linux Foundation

I knew it was going to happen, it was just a matter of time. Microsoft has officially joined the Linux Foundation as a platinum member. You heard it right. Microsoft has joined the Linux Foundation as a top tier member. Microsoft and the Linux Foundation just made the announcement at the Connect(); // 2016 event in New York.
I recall in an earlier interview with Jim Zemlin,  the executive director of the Linux Foundation, when I asked him about the possibility of Microsoft joining the Linu