Microsoft's Linux Distro: How and Why are they doing it? (CBL Mariner)

I almost fell off my chair when I heard that Microsoft released their own Linux distro. So what is this distro? What are Microsoft up to? And is it an Ubuntu/Fedora killer?

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TOC

0:00 Introduction 1:50 What is CBL-Mariner? 2:20 What's with the name? 2:34 Not available as an ISO 3:00 What does it do/installation 4:30 A minimalist distro 5:10 Serious about security 5:29 Why are Microsoft making a distro? 5:40 CBL for WSL6:05 Internet of Things 7:01 Cloud Services/Servers 7:39 So, are Microsoft the enemy? 8:48 The end of Linux is nigh? 9:25 Your thoughts?

Sources: [1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/02/ballmer_linux_is_a_cancer/ [2] https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/windowsserver/2015/05/06/microsoft-loves-linux/ [3] https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner [4] https://vmware.github.io/photon/ [5] https://vmware.github.io/photon/assets/files/html/3.0/photon_admin/tdnf.html [6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtJ9T_IJOPE ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIqA7piGHZQ