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Greg Kroah-Hartman Gripes About Microsoft's Linux Contribution; MS Renews Effort

Posted by timothy on from the public-growing-pains dept.

dp619 writes "Microsoft's developers were missing in action after the company donated GPL-licensed drivers to the Linux kernel community in July, leaving significant work to the Linux community, according to Linux driver project lead and Novell fellow Greg Kroah-Hartman. The company rekindled its involvement after Kroah-Hartman published a status report this week. Kroah-Hartman said that other companies were also laggards in Linux development, and that Microsoft's lack of involvement was nothing out of the ordinary."

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  1. Re:Kinda funny. by petrus4 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I don't get it. Microsoft donates code to the community, licensed under the GPL. Anyone is free to do whatever they like with this code (well, within the constraints of the license), and people are actually bitching about this? I've released quite a few pieces of software under various OSI licenses, and I don't actively maintain the code. If somebody else wants to, fine. Would everyone be happier if Microsoft weren't releasing anything at all?

    In the minds of the neurological cripples who are bitching about this, Microsoft are the Great Satan, no matter what.

    It doesn't matter what they do; it's always part of an Evil Plot. At this point, Steve Ballmer could donate the entirety of Microsoft's net worth to World Vision if he wanted to, and the FSF would still try and portray him laughing maniacally in the background.