Bits by Ben » open source http://ben.liveforge.org a Gentoo Linux geek blogging about free software and technology Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:44:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 One small step for a man http://ben.liveforge.org/2009/07/21/one-small-step-for-a-man http://ben.liveforge.org/2009/07/21/one-small-step-for-a-man#comments Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:40:24 +0000 Ben http://ben.liveforge.org/?p=128 But a giant leap for Microsoft!

The Redmond giant that we all love to hate has surprised many Free Software enthusiasts by releasing “20,000 lines of code under GPLv2 for three Linux device drivers. Microsoft says its first open source Linux code contribution is designed to speed the performance of the operating system when it’s run in a Hyper-V virtual machine.” (source: DesktopLinux.com) See also the article by our resident kernel developer GregKH.

So much for the “cancerous” license… Anyway, I’m happy they are starting to see the light.

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