On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Chris Penn<[email protected]> wrote: > Now they want to be > friends. I will believe it when I see it. > > > Chris... >
I don't look at it as "MS becomes friends of GPL (or Linux)" MS is a private corporation. Their underlying motive is to provide long term shareholder value, period. But, the more MS starts to find their interests aligned with FSF, Linux, that's a good thing. Kind of like countries. MS doesn't have or need friends. They have interests, enemies, temporary or longer term alliances. So the question becomes, does this show that to some degree their interest is aligned with users of Linux. I think this is a fairly narrow contribution designed to aid use of their technology to allow Linux to run well under their hypervisor. Now if they start contributing to Samba or make an official MIT or GPL distribution of Visual Studo or .NET for Debian, Novell and Redhat, then I think the story gets better. Don't hold your breath. -- John.
