MS contributing to Linux

[Liam Proven]

2009/7/23 Smoot Carl-Mitchell <smoot at tic.com>:
> On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 23:23 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
>
>> > I am not promoting anything.  I am pointing out the realities of many
>> > Microsoft server shops these days.  I hope the folks in charge of
>> > virtualization in these shops will look at alternatives, but I am not
>> > naive enough to think they all will.
>>
>> I'm not saying you're advertising it or anything, but this is a public
>> list; anything we say will be found by Google eventually and used as
>> evidence!
>
> Evidence for what?  Please explain?

It was a reference. "Anything you say will be taken down and may be
used as evidence" is a standard part of the little speech British
policemen must give to suspects at arrest. It's like the "Miranda"
speech that US police must give: "you have the right to remain
silent..." I thought this was fairly well-known from use in movies &
TV.

My point being, any statement that Hyper-V is a cheap way to try Linux
in a VM might end up being found by someone googling for such info.
And Hyper-V is not cheap, because it runs on an expensive OS.


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