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

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."

Comments

Re:Kinda funny.

[QuantumG]

Wow, did you not even read the summary? Greg KH bitches about everybody.

Re:The FSF's enforcement bots have mod points toda

[NoYob]

I'm just hoping for a day when Apple does the same thing - watching the Apple fanboys against the FOSS fanboys go at it and the dual Apple/FOSS fanboys having aneurysms would be an incredibly entertaining set of threads!

If it has happened, please oh please post the link!

Re:Kinda funny.

[LearnToSpell]

I don't think the GPL has a defined coding style. Maybe we can put that in v.4.

Re:Thanks

[Qubit]

Hmm.. did they forget to thank? It's quite common to cry about this and that... when the only think needed is to shut your mouth and THANK for the little help.

If you're here to build me a bridge, then tell me so and build it. If you're here to bring me a stone, then don't tell me you're here to build me a bridge.

Oh, cry me a river...

Re:A little credit where it's due

[Tubal-Cain]

So the editors are trying to trick us into reading the article by hiding it in the summary? Good thing it didn't work.

Re:Kinda funny.

[symbolset]

I'd just like to see more positive reinforcement, lest their devs lose any inclination to release code voluntarily in the future.

This code supports Linux guests in Hyper-V. In other words, it takes the legendary speed, security and stability of Windows and fuses it to the famous app compatibility and user friendliness of Linux.

It's fair to say the world is better off without it. I'd just as soon people didn't encourage such foolishness.

Re:The FSF's enforcement bots have mod points toda

[tolkienfan]

That's weird - I have mod points, and your comment is both overrated (5-insightful) and off-topic (as you pointed out).
Damn! I've posted, now I can't mod it. Oh well - I'll go mod some of your posts in another thread...
This one is underrated and hilarious. I'll start there.

Re:Thanks

[BitZtream]

So I guess the people who run Linux on MS servers aren't part of the Linux community?

I guess the poor guys that have to do this sort of thing because some manager says so, aren't cool enough to be part of your retarded little club?

Get a grip, god Linux fanboys are a pile of whiney bitches. Add another thing to the list of reasons Linux will always be the third world country of software world, no one likes a bunch of whiney bitches.