I think this is a great contribution by Microsoft, and shows that maybe they are willing to cooperate with the open source community.

But I am a little worried, as there is always the chance that this could be the groundwork of their infamous "embrace, extend, extinguish" policy. But hopefully, it will be a genuine contribution and in the future we can look foward to further contributions and cooperation with Microsoft.


On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 5:25 AM, Nicu Buculei <nicu_fedora@nicubunu.ro> wrote:
On 07/21/2009 12:04 PM, Keiran Smith wrote:
Well looks like us linux users can look forward to some of the
instabilities of windows in our Own Operating Systems. What are
microsoft thinking

I don't think you will be affected by this code unless you run a virtualized Linux guest on a Windows host and if you do that... well, probably you already have bigger problems :p

I am quite pleased by the Microsoft announcement, from now on when an MS astroturfer will try to throw FUD at me about Linux being inferior security and quality wise compared with Microsoft solutions I can smile and point Microsoft *is* a contributor to the Linux kernel.

The same about GPL: after releasing code under GPL, it would be really embarrassing for Microsoft to call again it as being "communist", "cancer" or "Pac-Man".



On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Yaakov Nemoy wrote:

   While this isn't 100% Fedora related, being such fans of upstream that
   we are, we can definitely go somewhere with this. You've probably seen
   in the news by now that Microsoft is making a pretty substantial
   contribution to the Linux kernel.

   http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2009/Jul09/07-20LinuxQA.mspx


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