[dundee] Microsoft contributes 20, 000 lines of code to the Linux Kernel

gordon dunlop astrozubenel at googlemail.com
Mon Jul 20 18:41:18 UTC 2009


No the date is not April 1st, Microsoft have donated 20,000 lines of code
under the GPLv 2 license. These are Linux device drivers so that a Linux
guest will get enhanced performance on top of hyper-V, Microsoft's
virtualisation hypervisor:

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2009/Jul09/07-20LinuxQA.mspx

What's next? Steve Ballmer using Ubuntu on his laptop!

Gordon
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