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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:/check_calendar by TheGratefulNet · · Score: 4, Funny

    linux and MS have a common enemy.

    apple.

    (only half kidding.)

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  2. Re:In other news.. by joaosantos · · Score: 5, Informative

    HyperV. Microsoft wants to sell it.

  3. Re:In other news.. by OzPeter · · Score: 4, Informative

    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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  4. 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.

  5. Re:In other news.. by LVSlushdat · · Score: 5, Informative

    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..

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  6. Re:When you can't beat em... by VortexCortex · · Score: 4, Funny

    Join em.

    First they ignore you.
    Then they laugh at you.
    Then they fight you.
    Then you win...

    ...Then they adopt you.
    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...

  7. Re:/check_calendar by gmuslera · · Score: 4, Funny

    After betting all the company on Windows 8, I'd say that the common enemy is Microsoft

  8. 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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  9. Re:time for a boycot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Citation needed. For all of it, really.

    These are big changes that occurred in FreeBSD. None of these were apple's contributions.