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Sure, but Microsoft has since contributed a lot to Linux and other open source projects. That's not me saying "oh they've changed!", that's me saying they've made it significantly harder on themselves to bring legal action against because they've publicly endorsed and supported the project for so long.
Whatever legal arguments they tried in the past that failed are even weaker now.
Considering that Microsoft has been involved in Linux development for a while now (they added some Linux stuff into Windows via WSL, for example), it would be stupid of them to try and kill it.