[Wolves] Microsofts sudden release of GPL code

[Antonio Roberts]

It'll just act as another reason to stay with MS products, or at least
their operating system and Windows Live. If their products can work
well with open source, why go fully open source?

It'll be interesting to see how the community integrates and updates
these patches.

Ant

2009/7/23 Simon B. <simonb at geek-web.co.uk>:
> Hi all,
>
> I assume many of you are aware that recent Microsoft submitted a patch
> to the Linux Kernel, which improves performance when running within a
> hyper-v environment.
>
> Which to me is not really a bad thing, though it is mainly beneficial to
> Microsoft as a bit or PR. As Both Xen (in the Citrix form) and Hyper-v
> are trying to get market space from VMWare. :
>
> Today, they have also released a Live Services Plugin for Moodle
> (source:
> http://port25.technet.com/archive/2009/07/21/the-live-services-plug-in-for-moodle-debuts.aspx
> ).
>
> I'm now curious as to the direction they are taking. I don't feel like
> its a move for more interoperability, and it more likely a PR/Marketing
> exercise. Though from the LKML it appears we can expect further patches
> from them also (them = hyper-v team, at least).
>
> Where do you guys reckon this is heading?
>
> I can happily say that if there is a decent MAPI plugin released in the
> future from Microsoft, (though I seriously doubt they would or if they
> did it would be closed source). I can finally rid the need for a Windows
> box.
>
> Thanks,
> Simon.
>
>
>
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