Comments about Microsoft and the GPL

[Heherson Pagcaliwagan]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Yaakov Nemoy <loupgaroublond at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2009/Jul09/07-20LinuxQA.mspx
> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10290686-16.html
>
> http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/072009-microsoft-linux-source-code.html
>
> And if you need a good laugh:
>
>
> http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/20/1643251/Microsoft-Releases-Linux-Device-Drivers-As-GPL
>
> 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?


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.


> 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?





> Or do we ignore it because it's not Fedora?
>
> Cheers,
> Yaakov
>
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