--- On Thu, 7/23/09, gilpel@altern.org gilpel@altern.org wrote:

From: gilpel@altern.org gilpel@altern.org Subject: Re: Ranter or evangelist? To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." fedora-list@redhat.com Date: Thursday, July 23, 2009, 10:32 PM 'Tonio wrote:

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Micro$oft is losing out to google, Twitter, Facebook

and others.  In a

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last ditch effort.  Micro$oft is releasing code

to linux.  Check out

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this at distrowatch.

http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20090720

Since Linux is strongon th server market, they want to attract them to Hyper-V, from what I've read. So?

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BTW, Redhat also signed a deal with them, are they really falling off

Red Hat signed "a contract" and Suse signed "a contract", so Red Hat ans Suse are just the same for both signing "a contract".

Which "a contract" have both companies signed?

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The stories about Microsoft releasing code, was more of a another way to cover up for a GPL violation :(

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/23/microsoft_hyperv_gpl_violation/

http://www.osnews.com/story/21882/Microsoft_s_Linux_Kernel_Code_Drop_Result_...

Not really because Micro$oft wants to help out a rival or a plague like Steve Ballmer once said. The truth comes out sooner or later.

Regards,

Antonio