To be clear for non-Michael-Jackson-fans: 360 + moonwalk works out the same (by sliding away backwards).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonwalk_%28dance%29

>moves backwards while seemingly walking forwards

It's actually a near-perfect analogy here, where actions speak louder than words re: Microsoft's commitment to maintaining adaptations of existing open source projects. I think the example provided is enough to trigger a careful analysis before jumping in, and I would love to see counter-examples to help balance the evaluation.

(Please note: very specifically requesting counter-examples of Microsoft-official, intended for production, open source repositories demonstrating long-term maintenance of tweaks of/dependencies on established open source projects that for whatever reason were never up-streamed.)

In the case of Microsoft specifically it's a silly meme that started due to the Xbox 360.

'Why do they call it the Xbox 360? Because when you see it you do a 360 and walk away.'

ah, cool, thanks! I didn't get it!

My reaction exactly, but it's actually a joke.

> do a 360 and moonwalk away

It made me think of this Jason Kidd quote: "We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees"

Came here for this :)

No, 360 is right: https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/2cwh0m/can_so...