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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.
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..)
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
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.
Citation needed. For all of it, really.
These are big changes that occurred in FreeBSD. None of these were apple's contributions.