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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. Just amazing, by sbeckstead · · Score: 1, Troll

    First I don't blame MS for doing what they did, I do thank them, though I don't use or benefit from their code.
    Second, how can anyone actually defend MS actions here. They got caught benefiting from public efforts and were forced to release the minimum code. They put little effort into the task and delivered crap (as usual). So Good on you MS, now can you please clean up the pile of $%# you left in the corner, thank you.

    astonishing

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    Why bother