Not too sure what to think about this, considering M$'s track record with OSS and other competitors.

Kind Regards,

Keith Roberts

---------- Forwarded message ---------- To: opensuse-offtopic opensuse-offtopic@opensuse.org From: Basil Chupin blchupin@iinet.net.au Subject: [opensuse-offtopic] Microsoft struggles to get Hyper-V drivers in Linux kernel

The company has ramped up kernel contributions in hopes of adding Hyper-V drivers, which it has worked on for more than two years

Microsoft http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/microsoft/ isn't exactly dumping Windows http://www.networkworld.com/topics/windows.html for Linux http://www.networkworld.com/topics/linux.html, but it has become one of the busiest contributors http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/07/16/2316251/Microsoft-Developer-Made-the-Most-Changes-To-Linux-30-Code?utm_source=rss1.0&utm_medium=feed to the Linux kernel. Microsoft's attempt to get Hyper-V drivers into the Linux kernel has taken longer than expected, having begun in July 2009 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/072009-microsoft-linux-source-code.html, so Microsoft is apparently trying to speed up the process.

Microsoft was the fifth-largest corporate contributor to Linux kernel version 3.0, open source author and computer scientist David Wheeler writes in his blog http://www.dwheeler.com/blog/2011/07/14/#microsoft-linux-author.

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