I hate when articles have no links to the sources. While Purism does all right, Reuters (Purisms source) does not. It seems like Tagesschau (German) was the source, while Netzpolitik.org (German) is a better source that gives background information and source links. To make it short: this all happened thanks to Nextcloud. 
However, I do not expect huge improvements. And all those bad things Microsoft does helps Linux to get more and more people. In June the statcounter page counted 5.5% Linux market share for Germany and in one or two days it will be updated and hopefully 6% (was 5% in may). So if those bad actions lead to self destruction, I’m fine with Microsofts actions. 
PS: The news is almost a year old, Purism is a bit late writing about it.
Related:
You hate it?
https://shoshanazuboff.com/book/
We are lite like it was 2003.
And i like to have linked here:
Your link lands on a website that has a googletagmanager tracker…for me, reputation = -10
I wonder what those peolpe are trying to sell us.
Furthermore, it can only be watched or listened to via Apple walled garden or Google’s (YT)
…but I like Shoshana all the same, and I’ve already read her masterpiece tree times!