For over 20 years, Linus Torvalds warned developers that Microsoft’s “love for open source” could eventually become a strategy for control. Most people laughed at him.
But from GitHub Copilot and Windows Recall to AI integration, forced cloud dependence, telemetry, and Windows 11 restrictions… many developers are starting to ask the same question:
Was Linus right all along?
In this video, we break down Microsoft’s transformation from the company that called Linux “a cancer” to the corporation now controlling huge parts of the modern developer ecosystem — and why some believe the real endgame was never open source… but ownership of the layer above it.
This is not about hating Microsoft. It’s about understanding how power, platforms, and control really work in the tech industry.

