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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 joaosantos · · Score: 5, Informative

    HyperV. Microsoft wants to sell it.

  2. 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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  3. 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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    Bruce Perens.
  4. 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.