Not surprising. They already threw a party for Debian 8 (not debian in general, but debian 8).

http://openness.microsoft.com/blog/2015/04/21/microsoft-debian-8-linuxfest/

The ethical break down is enough of a reason for them to throw a party imho.

On Wednesday, January 20, 2016 10:19 PM, Mitt Green <mitt_green@???> wrote:
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