Business is business. They (Microsoft) want more money (profit). And I think they want to protect their business against Open Source Software technologies.
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 1:19 AM, Ariz Jacinto <[email protected]> wrote: > > FTA[1]: > > " Microsoft is contributing thousands of lines of code to the Linux kernel, > with the blessing of open-source leaders.... The contribution of code will > make it possible to run a variety of Linux distributions as guests on > Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization technology for Windows Server 2008...." > > "...It's good to see Microsoft participating, but they're not saving the > whales here," Zemlin said. "They're doing this for business reasons. They > want their products to be more competitive and compatible with Linux -- not > because they love Linux or open source, but because they need this for their > products to succeed in the marketplace...." > > > [1] > http://www.techflash.com/microsoft/Microsoft_contributes_code_to_Linux_under_GPL_51145562.html > > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > -- Froilan S. Romualdo Linux/Windows user
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