[aklug] Re: Microsoft....code release....pretty sneaky????

On Monday 20 July 2009, Christopher Howard wrote:
> Peter Michael wrote:
> > http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=3403
> > So reading their reasoning for this just does not seem to wash...does
> > it???
> >
> > Pete
> >
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> I'm not an expert here, but isn't it all just part of the battle for
> the server market? I would think they would do what it takes to make
> Hyper-V a success, and bring in that next generation of WS2008 license
> fees, even if it means submitting some driver code to the Linux kernel.
>
> I mean, its not like they submitted wireless drivers or KDE components.
> This code is only beneficial if you are trying to run Linux in a
> Hyper-V environment, right?

Now Linux can now run in 'enlightened' mode on a Windows host. i think MS
wants to be the host OS, and folks want to run Linux, and Windows already
runs in 'Enlightened' mode on a Linux host :-) I think that is what it
means.

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Peace
Greg Madden
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