[Bradford] Linux Foundation and Microsoft

[John Robert Hudson]

Microsoft realised a while back that it would lose customers from Azure if it 
did not permit Linux instances on Azure. So it has been making a great deal of 
contributions to the Linux kernel to ensure that it works with Hyper-V.

John
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On Thursday 19 Feb 2015 15:55:11 Mohammed Djavanroodi wrote:
> Doing a bit of reading there seems to be quite a few places where Microsoft
> is involved in the Linux Foundation.
> 
> They're part of their Core Infrastructure Initiative
> <http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/announcements/2014/04/amazon-web-> services-cisco-dell-facebook-fujitsu-google-ibm-intel>, which prodominently
> seems to want to look after, and more importantly fund, things like OpenSSL
> that have become a core part of the internet, but are maintained as open
> source software.
> 
> Looks like another MS involvement is in the Internet of Things (IoT) side
> of things, which makes sense since a lot of companies are moving in that
> direction.
> 
> Also Microsoft has been opening itself up to Linux more since Nadalla took
> over, open sourcing technologies like .Net, and generally becoming more
> friendly towards both open source in general and Linux more specifically.
> They're a Linux kernel contributor, mostly to get Linux playing nicely with
> Hyper-V, and a good chunk of the Virtual Machiens on Azure are Linux (I
> don't just have the quoted figures to hand). So from Microsoft's point of
> view being involved in the Linux Foundation makes sense.
> 
> On 19 February 2015 at 15:12, Darren Menachem Drapkin <
> 
> darren.drapkin at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> > I know that this sounds alarmist, but does anyone know the details of
> > Microsoft's new association with The Linux Foundation ? I thought that
> > they were on the board now.  What is going on!
> > --
> > Darren Drapkin
> > 
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