Comments about Microsoft and the GPL

[Kamin Horvath]

I don't see that happening. Switching from the NT kernel to a *nix kernel
would break compatibility with all existing windows applications. That's why
the goal here is in virtualization.

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Affix <affix at ihack.co.uk> wrote:

> With microsoft contributing to the kernel does this mean we may see a
> unix based windows version. Personally I think windows should be unix
> based as with mac OSX it will greatly increase stability and security.
>
>
> On Tuesday, July 21, 2009, Nicolas Chauvet <kwizart at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2009/7/21 Nicu Buculei <nicu_fedora at nicubunu.ro>:
> >> 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
> > And that could be a problem for us, since the opposite (Windows on top
> > of linux) isn't that equivalent.
> > That's  because of the hardware coverrage isn't the same. (3D graphics
> > / raid drivers / others).
> >
> > One could say, it will be easier for Linux to live on top of windows.
> > That way drivers could remains closed sources and linux not a real OS
> > anymore, just providing few services on top of the real OS.
> >
> > While the European Union is presuring to remove out IE from the next
> > windows bundle, /me think it would have been more valuable to only
> > keep the very basic hardware support layers from the OS, so everything
> > else could have been optional.
> >
> > At least I can see one way to have the announcement turn into our
> > favour. It would be to have it compared with other opensourcing
> > announcement such the AMD/ATI one. Even if the reasons behind have
> > nothing to be compared, it could present theses as a success story for
> > the free software development scheme.
> > That should have be directed to end-users asking them to keep
> > presuring on hardware vendosr for free software solutions over
> > proprietary ones.
> >
> > Nicolas (kwizart)
> >
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