[CS-FSLUG] Pigs do fly! Microsoft unleashes 20, 000 lines of Linux code!
Sophie Hamilton
cs-fslug at theblob.org
Thu Jul 23 17:40:35 CDT 2009
Turns out that Microsoft's reasons for doing this aren't as rosy as
thought. They were previously offering the code under a mixed license
and it was in violation of the GPL, which is the actual reason it was
all released under the GPL later.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=3433
- Sophie.
On 7/20/09, Fred A. Miller <fmiller at lightlink.com> wrote:
> Microsoft unleashes 20,000 lines of Linux code
>
> Mary Jo Foley: Pigs do fly. Microsoft is releasing three
> Microsoft-developed Linux drivers to the Linux community for possible
> inclusion in the Linux source tree.
>
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