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Microsoft Sponsors Linux Foundation Event
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."
linux and MS have a common enemy.
apple.
(only half kidding.)
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"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
Azure (the MS cloud) now supports Linux images. They probably want some attention for that.
0x or or snor perron?!
HyperV. Microsoft wants to sell it.
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.
Not much, but there is a cold-wave going through Hell.
Mitt Romney sponsors Obama's campaign victory.
Seems anti-antithetical for MS to host anything involving Linux... what's the catch?
Well as per this article Microsoft is offering Linux on its Azure platform, so its quite reasonable for a major vendor of Linux services to want to be part of a Linux conference (and I had to stop myself from laughing out loud when I wrote that)
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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.
And from another article from this year Microsoft cracks top 20 list of Linux contributors. So again its reasonable for MS to be at the conference.
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MS has been an enemy of linux since the beginning. Taking their money now just shows that Linux can now be bought off.
Be seeing you...
I signed up for a 90 day demo Azure account, just to see how it compares to Amazon AWS, and was surprised as hell to see them offering Linux vms.. So just for giggles, spun one up, and sure enough, it was CentOS. They're pretty darn cheap on the demo though, I left the vm running and set a reminder to kill it before the 90 days was up, and about 30 days into the demo, I get an email telling me the account was getting close to running out of the "free" specs and I'd need to add a credit card for charges to continue.. This, mind you, on a vm thats just the os/normal services, nothing else running.. I went ahead and cancelled the demo.. Will stick to AWS and their free tier... I've had both a Win2003 AND an Ubuntu vm running there on the free tier for nearly six months, and both are actually runnning some remote services that I had been running on my home servers..
THANK YOU, Edward Snowden!! Americans owe you a debt of gratitude (whether they know it or not..)
if you can't 'em, join 'em... and sabotage from within.
Hardware stress tests? :P
I read TFA and all I got was this lousy cookie
Join em.
First they ignore you.
...Then they adopt you.
Then they laugh at you.
Then they fight you.
Then you win...
Then they abuse you.
Then they make you abuse others while they watch.
Then you become them.
Then you ignore them.
Then you laugh at them...
After betting all the company on Windows 8, I'd say that the common enemy is Microsoft
HyperV comes in every copy of Windows 8 64-bit. It's simply a service that needs to be enabled from the windows features list.
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.
Bruce Perens.
Imagine all the suckers who live in an alternate universe where they joke "imagine a bizarre messed up alternate reality where Duke Nukem Forever is released, Microsoft would actually sponsor a Linux event, and so on".
The fox is now in the chicken coop.
"So you want to love those conferences to death. I’ve killed at least two Mac conferences. First there was the Mac App Developers Conference. I was on the Board of Directors of the Mac App Developers Association long ago, and after I left I worked to try to turn it into a cross-platform developers conference, and I did. I managed to make it.. their last conference was very cross-platforn, both Windows and Macintosh, which of course turned off their Macintosh audience; half of the conference was irrelevant to them. They didn’t care about Windows. They were a bunch of Mac guys. Which diluted the value of the conference. And they didn’t know how to advertise the Windows guys when the Windows guys showe dup. So they lost money that year and the group folded. Oh, well. One less channel of communication that Apple can use to reach its developers.
The other conference was called the Technology and Issues Conference. it had been going on for, like, ten years. It was an independent conference. it was by invitation only. They invited VPs and above at all the major Mac software companies. And they always held it in, like, Yosemite or Vienna or Hawaii. It was a big junket thing. And it was alwaysthey held the conference the last few days of the week before Fourth of July weekend, right, so it was just a junket trip. But Apple always hated this conference because, you know, all of their ISVs got together and received a message that they didn’t control as much as they would have liked. Well, I sponsored a dinner and I broughtbecause once you sponsor a dinner, right, you get to talk to them during dinner. You get to do a dinner presentation, OK, once the clatter of knives dies down. And we were there being so helpful. Apple was still nickel and diming its developers to death. And so we’re there handing out free software developers’ kits to everybody there, and free copies of the Explorer PD and other things like that for their kids, because, you know, they’d bring their wives and families along with us, and so we’d give them free games and stuff. And then I gave them this big presentation over dinner and so on. So it seemed like Microsoft dominated the conference. Well, Apple got so pissed off at this that they threatened the guy that ran the conference that they were never going to send anybody again, that they were going to schedule conferences that directly opposed it so that the VPs couldn’t go to his conference, they could only go to Apple’s conference and so forth. So by injecting Microsoft content into the conference, the conference got shut down. The guy who ran it said, why am I doing this? I’m losing money on it every year anyway. Screw Apple, they don’t need my help. And so the conference died, so that’s two. I’m working on two other Mac conferences now."
~ James Plamondon, Microsoft Technology Evangelist
Of whom? Why not Apple. What have they done for anything open source (aside from commandeering parts of BSD for their own operating system)?
They're porting surface to Linux w00t, it'll probably be on Ubuntu first though shux ;-)
Good leaders run toward problems, bad leaders hide from them.
Citation needed. For all of it, really.
These are big changes that occurred in FreeBSD. None of these were apple's contributions.
they were the first to bitch about needing them