<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Yaakov Nemoy <<a href="mailto:loupgaroublond@gmail.com">loupgaroublond@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hey All, 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. <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2009/Jul09/07-20LinuxQA.mspx" target="_blank">http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2009/Jul09/07-20LinuxQA.mspx</a> <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10290686-16.html" target="_blank">http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10290686-16.html</a> <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/072009-microsoft-linux-source-code.html" target="_blank">http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/072009-microsoft-linux-source-code.html</a> And if you need a good laugh: <a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/20/1643251/Microsoft-Releases-Linux-Device-Drivers-As-GPL" target="_blank">http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/20/1643251/Microsoft-Releases-Linux-Device-Drivers-As-GPL</a> The way i see it, is that we can do one or more of several things based on this. Of course we can continue talking about upstream as a path to success, but i'm wondering, being no marketing expert myself, what else can we do with such a message? Is this a message we can try to take around to various different people and push extensively as proof that the system works? </blockquote><div> I'm personally happy that Microsoft contributed code to the kernel. This just goes on to show that Open Source is worth the effort even for proprietary shops. </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Is this even something we can take to mainstream media even though we're so fond of staying out of it for the very minimal real effect we have? </blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Or do we ignore it because it's not Fedora? Cheers, Yaakov -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list <a href="mailto:Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com">Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list</a> </blockquote></div> -- Heherson Pagcaliwagan <a href="http://www.azneita.org">http://www.azneita.org</a>