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Microsoft Sponsors Linux Foundation Event

Posted by timothy on from the not-entirely-new dept.

darthcamaro writes "There was a time when the Linux Foundation wouldn't take money from Microsoft. That time is not today — Microsoft is listed as a Gold Sponsor of the LinuxCon Europe event, paying $20,000 for the privilege and also getting a guaranteed speaking slot as a result."

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  1. Re:In other news.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Hyper-V - while Microsoft would love for everyone to run Windows Server everywhere they know that isn't going to happen. They also see the virtualization trend and they want to have Hyper-V dominate that market. They are a bit behind vmware and possibly KVM yet, but they do have a solid product they want to push.

    I'm assuming almost everything they talk about will be how you can virtualize your existing Linux machines on to Hyper-V.

  2. Why all the corporate sponsorship press? by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hey SlashDot, how about some "News for Nerds" sometime soon? This is two days in a row with an announcement about some large corporate entity throwing money into a marketing pot. If we wanted this kind of news, we'd be on the Businessweek site right now.

  3. Money is stronger then convictions. by Nyder · · Score: 3, Insightful

    MS has been an enemy of linux since the beginning. Taking their money now just shows that Linux can now be bought off.

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    1. Re:Money is stronger then convictions. by HaZardman27 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      MS has been an enemy of linux since the beginning

      I'm pretty sure Linux was created to offer a free Unix OS for personal computers. Linux may have been Microsoft's enemy, but I don't think it worked the other way around, even despite MS's funding of SCO and the whole Halloween document leaks ordeal.

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  4. Re:In other news.. by Mitchell314 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hardware stress tests? :P

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  5. Just in case anyone doesn't understand by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Linux Foundation is an organization of really large businesses. They currently pay the salary of Linux Torvalds and a handful of other programmers, but they are first and foremost an organization of really large businesses. Many of the businesses are not particularly friendly to Linux. Most of them don't deserve your trust. A number of them produce proprietary drivers which run in the kernel, against the licensing of Linux itself.

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    1. Re:Just in case anyone doesn't understand by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Hi Chibi Merrow,

      Why are proprietary drivers the only way you can get your work done? I'm not asking you so much as I am asking you to tell me why it happened to you. It's probably going to be something like company X wouldn't make open drivers. And then tell me if you really think that company X is protecting some precious intellectual property and if they would actually be damaged if it was released as Open Source.

      Very often the driver only works on their specific hardware, and there isn't really any chance of financial damage from opening the driver.

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  6. Re:/check_calendar by Nerdfest · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I thought their common enemy was Google (although Google does use lot of Linux in its business).