On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 3:02 PM, David Kaiser<[email protected]> wrote: > I can't believe nobody has posted this on here yet today! > > Microsoft released 20,000 lines of source code to the Linux kernel - > released under the GPL. Microsoft is going to maintain said code in the > kernel. > > I am not making this up. > > http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/072009-microsoft-linux-source-code.html > > http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=3403 >
I saw this and posted on twitter... the code is for their own benefit though, as it provides better performance for linux machines running on Hyper-V hypervisors... I kinda see this as a take on VMware more than anything else.
