Microsoft Submits Code to Linux Kernel - Linus Responds

[Dennis Kibbe]

On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 02:07 -0700, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> Old news. The code is so their virtual server can run linux more
> efficiently.

Don't see how this is old news except that M$ did release the code to
Windows Services for UNIX under the GPL years ago.

>From Bradley's blog at SFLC.

"Another thing that's not new to Microsoft is that they have no
interesting in contributing to Free Software unless it makes their
proprietary software more desirable."

M$ has a long ways to go before I'd consider them a genuine member of
the FLOSS community.

dennisk
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