I recently wrote that Microsoft suddenly released some code to the open source community. Turns out their motives weren’t as pure as first thought: Sometimes, some things are just too good to be true. Earlier this week, Microsoft made a relatively stunning announcement that it would contribute some 20000 lines of code to the Linux [...]
Posts Tagged ‘kernel’
20 Jul
Microsoft Stuns Linux Community
This is absolutely stunning: In an historic move, Microsoft Monday submitted driver source code for inclusion in the Linux kernel under a GPLv2 license. The code consists of four drivers that are part of a technology called Linux Device Driver for Virtualization. The drivers, once added to the Linux kernel, will provide the hooks for [...]
