[CentOS] OT: [opensuse-offtopic] Microsoft struggles to get Hyper-V drivers in Linux kernel (fwd)

Thu Jul 21 12:03:31 UTC 2011
Keith Roberts <keith at karsites.net>

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

Kind Regards,

Keith Roberts


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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>.

[Full story]

http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/microsoft-struggles-get-hyper-v-drivers-in-linux-kernel-357


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