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DATE | 2009-07-20 |
FROM | Ron Guerin
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SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Strange News this week
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From lestw-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Mon Jul 20 21:13:05 2009 Received: from www2.mrbrklyn.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id n6L1D2Yv029280 for ; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:13:04 -0400 Received: (from majordomo-at-localhost) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id n6L1D2iY029279 for hangout-outgoings; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:13:02 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: www2.mrbrklyn.com: majordomo set sender to lestw-hangout-at-nylxs.com using -f Received: from broadway.vnetworx.net (broadway.vnetworx.net [69.31.43.18]) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id n6L1CxVo029275 for ; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:13:02 -0400 Received: (qmail 31311 invoked by uid 89); 21 Jul 2009 01:12:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.33?) (74.73.9.208) by broadway.vnetworx.net with SMTP for ; 21 Jul 2009 01:12:57 -0000 Message-ID: <4A651613.4060407-at-vnetworx.net> Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:12:51 -0400 From: Ron Guerin User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Subject: Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Strange News this week References: <20090721001138.GA29808-at-panix.com> In-Reply-To: <20090721001138.GA29808-at-panix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: lestw-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com
Ruben Safir wrote: > July 20, 2009 (Computerworld) Microsoft Corp.'s move to release > three of its drivers to Linux, however technically modest it may > be, could put pressure on other closed-source vendors to follow > suit. > Let's hope. > According to Greg Kroah-Hartman, a longtime Linux developer for > Novell Inc. and the head of the Linux Driver Project, Linux today > "supports hundreds of thousands of drivers." [snip] > "This shows that their customers have been asking to run Linux," > he said. > Bingo. It was a business decision, and knowing how they feel about both FOSS and Linux, not one they made too lightly. I guess we're past the "they ignore you" phase now. We already did the "they laugh at you". Does this mean it's "they fight you" time? > It also shows, in a posting to Slashdot by Sam Ramji, Microsoft's > head of open-source strategy, that the company is not trying to > undermine Linux or bolster its 2006 claim that Linux violated its > patents. > Well, it hardly does anything of the sort, as I'm sure Mr. Ramji is well aware. Drivers are always welcome, but they're program code, not legally binding pledges of anything other than they won't sue over the GPLed code in the drivers themselves.
- Ron
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