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Looking at the team http://www.omnisharp.net/#team the majority of them are not Microsoft employees (exceptions include Scott Hanselman and Rajkumar Janakiraman) So I don't think so.



Iirc Omnisharp comes from the Mono/Xamarin-team and is used as the backing technology behind Monodevelop/Xamarin Studio.


This blog post (scroll down to "Microsoft & OSS") details how the project came to be. http://blog.jonathanchannon.com/2014/11/12/csharp-first-clas...


Hi! tldr; It was completely an OSS project to start with and MS wanted to get on-board which was great.




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