Comments about Microsoft and the GPL

[Nicu Buculei]

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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