I happened over this post recently and it seemed like a good place for me to ask a question I had. Are Microsoft employees allowed to build their own computers, or do they have to purchase them from somewhere? And, are you given a budget, or do you say I need...
(git, systemd, wayland). But taking a step back, it’s really hard to see how these stumbles (that’s again from an outsider free/open source perspective; maybe they are still seen as having been the right moves at the time inside Canonical; I just don’t know) might have contributed...