Ladies and Gentlemen, Hell just froze over, MS uses GPL

tlarkin

tlarkin

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...to license device drivers to Linux...

yeah that is right, you read that correctly you are not dyslexic and if you are, well I am sorry to hear that.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10290686-16.html

Smart move I think, but what is MS's goal here? Is it to be able to finally play nice with other platforms/products? Do they realize that open source does have a market for capitalism?
 
Doesn't it have something to do with making it easier for Linux users' to operate MS VM software within a Linux environment? That's what I got from some of the articles I read. Correct me if I'm wrong...
 
mep916 said:
Doesn't it have something to do with making it easier for Linux users' to operate MS VM software within a Linux environment? That's what I got from some of the articles I read. Correct me if I'm wrong...
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sound like a logical reason
 
mep916 said:
Doesn't it have something to do with making it easier for Linux users' to operate MS VM software within a Linux environment? That's what I got from some of the articles I read. Correct me if I'm wrong...
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Yes, in some deployments these days you are seeing dummy work stations that actually pull virtual images down from the server and people are actually working on virtual machines. It cuts cost and overhead and in some cases can be even more secure (well depends on security model).

Redhat enterprise Linux has all sorts of crazy virtual deployment technology and it is growing. I think MS simply would like to keep any existing customers that may migrate to that technology so they allow Linux distros direct access to driver source code to make it run better virtually. Since, after all, in a virtual machine you are running off a virtual layer of hardware.
 
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