Very good news. I like their change of heart and strategy. It shows that they did not achieve market dominance by mistake. They are a malleable company.
Wire On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 10:07 -0400, Niles Collins wrote: > http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/07/microsoft-aims-at-vm-market-with-linux-kernel-code-offering.ars > > > > Microsoft is contributing approximately 20,000 lines of source code to > the Linux kernel with the aim of improving support for running the > Linux operating system in virtualized environments on Windows servers. > The move is part of a broader trend at Microsoft towards collaboration > with the open source software community. > > Prominent Linux kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman announced the code > submission today in a message posted to the Linux kernel mailing list. > He says that the new drivers contributed by Microsoft will soon land > in the staging tree where they will undergo some refinement before > they are merged directly into the mainline kernel. Microsoft is making > the code available under the terms of GNU's General Public License > (GPL), the open source software license that is used by the Linux > kernel. > > > > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- >
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