After facing backlash from the developer community, tech giant Microsoft has now decided to delay the enforcement of fits new policy that was set to go into effect from July 16. The policy would ban commercial open source applications, which in turn had developers worried about the future of their projects. 

In its new Microsoft Store policy, the company had said that developers must not attempt to profit from open-source or other software that is otherwise generally available for free, nor be priced irrationally high relative to the features and functionality provided by your product.

The announcement irked the developer community as it would hamper their efforts to monetise open source software.