[Thelug] Microsoft stuns Linux world, submits source code for kernel

[Kostas Boukouvalas]

Λάδι στη φωτιά της προηγούμενης κουβέντας! (όχι την Μοντέλα ανάπτυξης
λογισμικού, την άλλη, που ξεκίνησε με αφορμή το Google OS).

Microsoft made the announcement at the annual OSCON open source
conference that opened Monday in San Jose. Greg Kroah-Hartman, the
Linux driver project lead and a Novell fellow, said he accepted 22,000
lines of Microsoft's code at 9 a.m.PST Monday. Kroah-Hartman said the
Microsoft code will be available as part of the next Linux public tree
release in the next 24 hours. The code will become part of the
2.6.30.1 stable release.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/072009-microsoft-linux-source-code.html?page=1

Η πρώτη αντίδραση: "Obviously we are tickled about it," said Jim
Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation. "Hell has frozen
over, the seas have parted," he said with a chuckle.

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*χιουμορ*: Ε τώρα μπορούμε να πούμε οτι ο ίδιος άνθρωπος που έριξε τη
λάσπη στο Ubuntu στο Linux Plumbers Conference, καλωσορίζει τη
Microsoft στο ελ/λακ...