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

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 10, 2009 @10:33AM 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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Re:How did it make it into the kernel in that stat by Chirs · 2009-09-10 11:20 · Score: 5, Informative

This is for the drivers/staging tree, which is specifically set aside for drivers that don't meet normal code standards but where the intent is to bring them up to par for merging into the "real" tree.