MS contributing to Linux

[David McNally]

I'm pretty sure that they couldn't do that. They released it under the GPL,
so they can't sue anyone about it. Plus, they have no one to sue.

Although I agree, it's hard to trust them.

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Accessys at smart.net <accessys at smart.net>wrote:

>
> I also would worry that they are "trying" to sneak propritary code
> into the linux code, then sue linux... (who do you sue, linus??)
>
> I don't trust em as far as I can throw the town of Redmond.
>
> Bob
>
> On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, David McNally wrote:
>
> > I didn't say that they care about us, I said that they're pretending to
> care
> > about us, which is, as I also said, the best we're ever going to get from
> > them. Don't get me wrong, I hate MS too, I'm just saying that they're
> trying
> > to make it look like they care.
> >
> > And I do have an XP VM from the install CD from back when I actually used
> > Windows, but the VM is in VirtualBox, not Xen.
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 5:31 AM, Chan Chung Hang Christopher <
> > christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
> >
> > > David McNally wrote:
> > > > Well, at least they're pretending to care about us, which is the best
> > > we're
> > > > ever going to get from them.
> > > >
> > > Of course they care about us. Like how hyenas look at the
> > > lion's/cheetah's kill.
> > >
> > > > And I have the same thing as Derek: the only thing that's ever
> crashed my
> > > > Ubuntu host is XP in VirtualBox. (It crashed it pretty hard, too,
> needed
> > > > more than a restart.)
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > I take it neither you nor Derek were using KVM? You running Windows
> with
> > > a Xen vm with paravirtualized drivers?
> > >
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